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If a high-energy neutrino passes through my body and interacts with the atoms within, will it produce light, however fleeting?

I was reading about the remarkable IceCube neutrino detector and considering the high energy neutrinos creating a trail of photons as they pass through everything, including our bodies. Is that accurate? If so, what becomes of such photons? Do they escape?
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Just to be clear, the neutrino itself does not produce any light (or Cherenkov radiation, which is light given off due to a charged particle moving through a medium faster than the speed of light in that medium) because neutrinos are not electrically charged.  But a neutrino's (very rare) interaction via the weak force with another particle can cause *that* particle (and others near it) to give off some light, as it recoils.

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