On Earth, trillions of subatomic particles called neutrinos stream through our bodies every second, but we never notice because they rarely interact with matter. In…
Evidence of high-energy neutrino emission from the galaxy NGC 1068 has been found by an international team of scientists for the first time. First spotted…
For the first time, researchers reveal the origin of neutrinos, elementary particles that reach our planet from the depths of the Universe. Highly energetic and…
University of Houston Researchers to Create Facility for Mining Exceptionally Pure Argon from Colorado Site A deposit of virtually pure argon that has been left…
For the first time, physicists extracted the detailed “energy-dependent neutrino-argon interaction cross section,” a key value for studying how neutrinos change their flavor Physicists studying…
CUORE Team Places New Limits on the Bizarre Behavior of Neutrinos Physicists are closing in on the true nature of the neutrino — and might…
‘Ghost particles’ research could bolster physics, nuclear nonproliferation. A nuclear reactor at an Illinois energy plant is helping University of Chicago scientists learn how to…
New world record: Neutrinos are lighter than 0.8 electron volts. Neutrinos are arguably the most fascinating elementary particles in our universe. In cosmology they play…
Neutrinos Are Lighter Than 0.8 Electronvolts New world record: KATRIN experiment limits neutrino mass with unprecedented precision. Neutrinos are arguably the most fascinating elementary particle…
NASA gives go-ahead for $20M multi-institution balloon experiment led by UChicago scientists. Sometimes a question is so big that it takes a continent to answer…
Scientific first at CERN facility a preview of upcoming 3-year research campaign. The international Forward Search Experiment team, led by physicists at the University of…
Early-career nuclear physicists show that a better understanding of how neutrinos interact with matter is needed to make the most of upcoming experiments. Neutrinos may…
New calculations show that a black hole slurping down a star may not have generated enough energy to launch a neutrino. In October 2019, a…
MIT Graduate student Nicholas Kamp describes the MicroBooNE experiment and its implications for our understanding of fundamental particles. Neutrinos are one of the most mysterious…
The theoretical particle known as the sterile neutrino has been dealt a blow by new results from the MicroBooNE experiment at the U.S. Department of…
“Sterile neutrinos” are theoretically predicted new particles that offer an intriguing possibility in the quest for understanding the dark matter in our universe. Unlike the…
Sterile neutrinos are a special kind of neutrino that has been proposed to explain some unexpected experimental results, but they have not been definitively discovered….
The ICARUS detector, part of Fermilab’s Short-Baseline Neutrino Program, will officially start its hunt for elusive sterile neutrinos this fall. The international collaboration led by…
