Do experimental (!) particle physicists have any other way of doing research on this than colliders?
Do experimental (!) particle physicists have any other way of doing research on this than colliders?
The major issue is that you have nearly no idea when/where these events will occur, and they are really rare to begin with. Add the distances that these things occur at and your error bars go through the roof[2]. Still, over a VERY long time and with a LOT of these detectors spread about the Sol system (and likely a bit further out), you can get the results you'd need.
It's not cheap or easy or timely. But with 12 orders of magnitude to go, it's a lot cheaper, easier, and more timely than trying to build an accelerator with Jupiter in the way :)
[0] as in, not next to the Sun, Earth, Moon, near gravitational perturbers, etc.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophysical_jet
[2] http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/geoopt/lenseq.htm...
But not sure if that qualifies as "experimental" particle physics.