Intriguing news from MiniBooNE
New research results have potentially identified a fourth type of neutrino: the sterile neutrino.
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New elementary particle evidence found, ‘sterile neutrino’ long suspected
From Los Alamos National Laboratory, June 6, 2018: New research results have potentially identified a fourth type of neutrino, a “sterile neutrino” particle.
We’re going to need a bigger blackboard
Watch SLAC theorist Lance Dixon write out a new formula that will contribute to a better understanding of certain particle collisions.
Neutrino Day speaker: Engineering for big science
- Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
- DUNE
- LBNF
- Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility
- Sanford Lab
- Sanford Underground Research Facility
- South Dakota
From Sanford Underground Research Facility’s Deep Thoughts, June 4, 2018: Building the largest international neutrino experiment on U.S. soil requires innovative engineering solutions. Fermilab Deputy Director for LBNF Chris Mossey gives us a glimpse of the challenges of building the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility.
Big boost for Fermilab’s short-baseline neutrino experiments
New data shows that a MiniBooNE signal that may point to additional types of neutrinos has grown even stronger. Significantly stronger.
The Higgs boson has a new friend
From Live Science, June 4, 2018: The Higgs boson appeared again at the world’s largest atom smasher — this time, alongside a top quark and an antitop quark, the heaviest known fundamental particles.
One quadrillion LHC collisions lead to a rare discovery
From NOVA NEXT, June 4, 2018: The CMS and ATLAS collaborations report a substantial new advance in the understanding of the Higgs boson, the particle that is responsible for giving mass to fundamental subatomic particles.
To grasp the latest physics breakthrough, think of sumo wrestlers and barracudas
From CNN, June 4, 2018: Scientists from the CMS and ATLAS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have observed the most massive known fundamental subatomic particle directly interacting with an energy field that gives mass to the building blocks of the universe.
Sterile neutrinos: Mysterious particle that shouldn’t exist may demand ‘new physics’
From Newsweek, June 4, 2018: After years of controversy and conflicting results, MiniBooNE appears to support old results from the LSND experiment. Researchers think it might be evidence of a fabled and highly controversial elementary particle, the sterile neutrino.
The ghost particle that shouldn’t exist: Scientists find signs of a ‘sterile neutrino’ that could rewrite the rules of physics and help explain dark matter
From Daily Mail, June 4, 2018: MiniBooNE, a Fermilab experiment, published new results that mirror those seen from an experiment run in the 1990s at Los Alamos National Laboratory, which could be interpreted as evidence for sterile neutrinos, a theorized source of the universe’s dark matter.