News tagged with neutrino experiment

Budget cuts portend new direction for Fermilab's Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists working at Fermilab, the premier particle physics lab in the United States, have been asked to rework their plans for the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) in light of current ...

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created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

First results from Daya Bay find new kind of neutrino transformation

The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment, a multinational collaboration operating in the south of China, today reported the first results of its search for the last, most elusive piece of a long-standing puzzle: ...

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created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (20) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Daya Bay antineutrino detectors exceed performance goals

(PhysOrg.com) -- After just three months of operation, the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has far surpassed expectations, recording tens of thousands of particle interactions and paving the way to a better understanding ...

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created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Physicists: Did neutrinos break the speed of light?

(PhysOrg.com) -- The revolutionary news that an experiment measured particles traveling faster than the speed of light drew varied ages and backgrounds to a standing-room only physics department forum, "Faster ...

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created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 33

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

FTL neutrinos (or not)

The recent news from the Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus (OPERA) neutrino experiment, that neutrinos have been clocked travelling faster than light, made the headlines over the last week ...

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created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 15

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

Surprise difference in neutrino and antineutrino mass lessening with new measurements

(PhysOrg.com) -- The physics community got a jolt last year when results showed for the first time that neutrinos and their antimatter counterparts, antineutrinos, might be the odd man out in the particle ...

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created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

The Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment begins taking data

The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has begun its quest to answer some of the most puzzling questions about the elusive elementary particles known as neutrinos. The experiment’s first completed set ...

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created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Fermilab experiment weighs in on neutrino mystery

Scientists of the MINOS experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today (June 24) the results from a search for a rare phenomenon, the transformation of muon ...

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created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment: On track to completion

Berkeley Lab physicists and engineers are among the leaders of the unique Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment, where Chinese and American scientists, with colleagues from Russia, Taiwan, and the Czech Republic, ...

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created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

New measurements from MINOS experiment suggest a difference in a key property of neutrinos and antineutrinos

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the MINOS experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator laboratory today announced the world's most precise measurement to date of the parameters that govern ...

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created Jun 14, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

'Neutrino oscillation': Particle chameleon caught in the act of changing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers on the OPERA experiment at the INFN's Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy today announced the first direct observation of a tau particle in a muon neutrino beam sent through the Earth ...

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created May 31, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (28) | comments 39 | with audio podcast

Researchers Detect First Neutrino Events at T2K Facilities in Japan

(PhysOrg.com) -- Louisiana State University researchers, including graduate and undergraduate students, have been working for several years on an experiment in Japan called T2K, short for Tokai to Kamioka ...

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created Jan 19, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 2 | with audio podcast