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The mean free path of neutrinos through lead is around one light-year. So, taking the thickness of the body to be 1/2 a meter, you would expect the probability of any individual neutrino to interact with the body to be ~5 x 10^-17. So you'd ballpark have around a 20--40% chance that a single neutrino interacts with your body. It would probably cause a localized radiation burn. Detectable, but probably not lethal unless you got really unlucky with where it hit you.


The mean free path of much lower energy neutrinos in lead is about a light year.

The MFP of a 120 PeV neutrino in lead would be something like 10 kilometers, I think.


More like 100 km I'd think but yeah, the neutrino nucleon cross section gets much bigger at high energies




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