Read article 'Neutrinos get their grand OPERA'
The 2000 tonne OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion Tracking Apparatus) experiment has been approved for construction and operation in the CERN Neutrino Beam to Gran Sasso project.
Read article 'Long haul journey gets ‘under’ way'
On 20 October, CERN director-general Luciano Maiani bravely took over the controls of an excavator for the groundbreaking of the CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso project.
Read article 'No smoking guns under the Sun'
A range of different experiments have studied in detail the neutrinos emitted by the Sun. What does this complex picture now tell us? Arnon Dar reviews the latest wisdom.
Read article 'How long until the next supernova?'
Neutrinos are always interesting and frequently controversial. The biennial neutrino physics meeting, held this year in Sudbury, Canada, welcomed a major new neutrino detector and showed how the com...
Read article 'DONUT comes to neutrino town'
A neutrino experiment at Fermilab has seen the first direct evidence for the tau neutrino, the most elusive of the 12 particles that make up the Standard Model picture of the fundamental structure o...
Read article 'Synthetic neutrinos appear to disappear'
Announced at the recent Neutrino 2000 meeting in Sudbury, Canada, were the first results from the K2K long-distance neutrino beam experiment in Japan. For the first time, synthetic neutrinos made in...
Read article 'The beginning of a new science'
Over the 45 years since their discovery, neutrinos have changed from being a physics oddity into one of experimental physics' most powerful tools.
Read article 'Between neutrinos and the deep blue sea'
For many years, physicists searching for and studying delicate physics effects have been working in the shelter of large underground installations. Now the ocean too is the scene of new physics dev...
Read article 'Cracow establishes a tradition'
Neutrinos were the subject of an annual conference held in Poland in January.
Read article 'Making muon rings round neutrino factories'
A new way of making neutrino beams has caught the attention of physicists worldwide.
