News tagged with neutrino beams

Contested 'faster-than-light' experiment yields results

A fiercely contested experiment that appears to show the accepted speed limit of the Universe can be broken has yielded the same results in a re-run, European physicists said.

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created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (37) | comments 123

Scientists take fresh look at 'faster-than-light' experiment

Scientists who threw down the gauntlet to physics by reporting particles that broke the Universe's speed limit said on Friday they were revisiting their contested experiment.

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created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 146

Physicists wary of junking light speed limit yet

(AP) -- Physicists on the team that measured particles traveling faster than light said Friday they were as surprised as their skeptics about the results, which appear to violate the laws of nature as we ...

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created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 20

Roll over Einstein: Law of physics challenged (Update 3)

One of the very pillars of physics and Einstein's theory of relativity - that nothing can go faster than the speed of light - was rocked Thursday by new findings from one of the world's foremost laboratories.

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created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (100) | comments 181

Iowa State physicist to test next-generation neutrino detector for major experiment

Hundreds of physicists from around the world are making plans to shoot the world's most intense beam of neutrinos from Illinois, underground through Iowa, all the way to a former gold mine in South Dakota. ...

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created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Physicists to send highest-intensity neutrino beam from Illinois to South Dakota

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's highest-intensity neutrino beam starts in Illinois and heads straight through the earth all the way to South Dakota. What does that have to do with Brookhaven National Lab on Long ...

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created Jun 09, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

First Neutrino Events Observed at T2K Near Detector

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from the Japanese-led multi-national T2K neutrino collaboration announced today that over the weekend they detected the first events generated by their newly built neutrino beam ...

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created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (25) | comments 3

Officials break ground for the world's most advanced neutrino experiment

(PhysOrg.com) -- Construction begins this month on a cutting-edge physics laboratory in northern Minnesota, supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota ...

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created May 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 15