(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 antineutrino ...
General Physics
Jun 14, 2010
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Ytterbium was discovered in 1878, but until it recently became useful in atomic clocks, the soft metal rarely made the news. Now ytterbium has a new claim to scientific fame. Measurements with ytterbium-174, an isotope with ...
General Physics
Jul 22, 2009
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The neutrino, one of nature's most elusive and least understood subatomic particles, rarely interacts with matter. That makes precision studies of the neutrino and its antimatter partner, the antineutrino, a challenge. The ...
General Physics
Oct 24, 2023
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A planet's interior heat comes from two principal sources: leftover energy amassed from collisions between planetesimals during the accretion of the planet and the subsequent decay of radioactive elements embedded within ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 1, 2022
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Charged particles, like protons and electrons, can be characterized by the trails of atoms these particles ionize. In contrast, neutrinos and their antiparticle partners almost never ionize atoms, so their interactions have ...
General Physics
Sep 17, 2019
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Scientists study tiny particles called neutrinos to learn about how our universe evolved. These particles, well-known for being tough to detect, could tell the story of how matter won out over antimatter a fraction of a second ...
General Physics
Jun 18, 2018
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New results show a difference in the way neutrinos and antineutrinos behave, which could help explain why there is so much matter in the universe.
General Physics
Aug 7, 2017
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Results from a new scientific study may shed light on a mismatch between predictions and recent measurements of ghostly particles streaming from nuclear reactors—the so-called "reactor antineutrino anomaly," which has puzzled ...
General Physics
Apr 5, 2017
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When theoretical physicists like myself say that we're studying why the universe exists, we sound like philosophers. But new data collected by researchers using Japan's Subaru telescope has revealed insights into that very ...
Astronomy
Jul 27, 2023
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Joint effort of the nuclear theory group at the University of Jyvaskyla and the international collaborative EXO-200 experiment paves the way for solving the reactor antineutrino flux problems. The EXO-200 collaboration consists ...
General Physics
Jun 17, 2020
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