The Tokai to Kamioka (T2K) experiment in Japan and the NuMI Off-axis νe Appearance (NOvA) experiment in the United States, previously considered rival experiments, conducted a joint analysis and published their first results today in the journal Nature.
Scientists are that much closer to understanding protons today after using a novel technique involving a high-energy neutrino beam to precisely measure their size, which could change how these kinds of experiments are done and answer many more questions, say researchers from York University.
TORONTO, October 17, 2017 – Neutrinos are tiny, abundant particles of matter that pass unnoticed through us and almost always through the Earth, but the full extent of their role in the universe remains a mystery. Neutrinos may hold the key to fundamental questions about the nature of matter, exploding stars and cosmic evolution. Today, […]