neutrino physics

Distinguished Scientist Fellow Mary Bishai shares her reflections on a career investigating the mysterious particles called neutrinos.

After a series of experiments, MicroBooNE scientists have ruled out the sterile neutrino, taking at least one complication out of explaining phenomena beyond the Standard Model of particle physics.

New results from the MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab found no evidence of a hypothetical fourth flavor of neutrino.

A new paper from researchers at the University of Melbourne shows that DUNE will be able to measure the total flux of all neutrino types using neutral current interactions with argon nuclei.

Fermilab participated in SURF’s annual Neutrino Day on July 12. Scientists and engineers from the lab participated in a livestream event from the underground caverns and spoke with visitors above ground about DUNE.

SDPB speaks with the science director at SURF about the outfitting massive underground caverns at SURF.
The caverns are currently having utilities, like fire suppression and duct work installed and will host cryostats for DUNE’s far detectors.

For more than two decades, a particle beam from Fermilab has been aimed at the NOvA experiment in Arrowhead, Minn. where researchers have been trying to understand neutrinos.

A detector in the Mediterranean discovered a cosmic neutrino carried 30 times more energy than any neutrino observed to date. Fermilab’s Bryan Ramson weighs in the new discovery.

Senator John Thune of South Dakota has worked for decades to help convert an abandoned gold mine in South Dakota into the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.

Journalists were recently invited to tour JUNO, a $300 million science facility designed to measure neutrinos. The U.S.-based DUNE project will also measure neutrinos. If JUNO explains the story of neutrino masses before DUNE comes online, the Fermilab-led project would then be able to measure the question differently and confirm JUNO’s results.