An experiment to capture unprecedented 3D images of the trajectories of charged particles has been demonstrated using cosmic rays as they strike and travel through a cryostat filled with a ton of liquid argon. The results ...
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May 14, 2021
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Massive stars end their lives in explosions called core-collapse supernovae. These explosions produce very large numbers of weakly interacting particles called neutrinos. Scientists working on the Deep Underground Neutrino ...
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Apr 19, 2021
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A century ago, physicists didn't know about the existence of neutrinos, the most abundant, elusive and ethereal subatomic particles of matter in the universe.
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Mar 5, 2021
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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.
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Aug 7, 2017
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Scientists from the NOvA collaboration have announced an exciting new result that could improve our understanding of the behavior of neutrinos.
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Aug 8, 2016
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New experimental results show a difference in the way neutrinos and antineutrinos behave, which could explain why matter persists over antimatter.
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Aug 8, 2016
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Mayly Sanchez clicked to a presentation slide showing the telltale track of an electron neutrino racing through the 14,000-ton Far Detector of the NOvA Neutrino Experiment.
General Physics
Apr 13, 2016
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In a new paper accepted by the journal Astroparticle Physics, Robert Ehrlich, a recently retired physicist from George Mason University, claims that the neutrino is very likely a tachyon or faster-than-light particle. There ...
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Dec 26, 2014
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(Phys.org) —It's the most powerful accelerator-based neutrino experiment ever built in the United States, and the longest-distance one in the world. It's called NOvA, and after nearly five years of construction, scientists ...
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Oct 6, 2014
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International research including the UK and Japan has confirmed that subatomic particles called neutrinos have a new form of identity-shifting property. Announced today (19 July 2013) these results could one day help scientists ...
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Jul 19, 2013
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