Read article 'Neutrinos will cross the Alps'
In a move that significantly extends the scope of European collaboration in particle physics, CERN is collaborating with the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics in a new project.
Read article 'Majorana mass limit reaches an all-time low'
In normal beta decay, a nuclear neutron transforms into a proton by emitting a neutrino. A far more exotic possibility is two successive beta decays, in which the neutrino emitted in the first decay w...
Read article 'Neutrino physics gains weight'
Neutrinos are always compelling physics. The neutrino sessions at this year's International Lepton-Photon Symposium at Stanford gave an up-to-date snapshot.
Read article 'First K2K events seen at KEK lab'
This is the first step towards the verification of the neutrino oscillation results given by the Super-Kamiokande last year.
Read article 'MINOS to explore neutrino mass'
Deep in a former Minnesota iron mine, scientists and government officials recently wielded pickaxes to chip away, at least symbolically, at the mysteries surrounding the subatomic particles known as n...
Read article 'Muon ring could act as a neutrino factory'
Neutrinos have always been in the particle physics spotlight. However, with new machine ideas opening up the possibility of intense neutrino sources, this area of research could go on to reveal furthe...
Read article 'Neutrinos with a swing'
New results suggest that types of neutrinos that were once thought to be distinct could mix. Here Louis Lyons compares this apparently mysterious mechanism to the behaviour of two simple pendula tied ...
Read article 'KamLAND: neutrinos from heaven and Earth'
The Japanese Kamiokande underground detector played a leading role in the study of neutrinos produced via cosmic rays and also helped to pioneer the subject of neutrino astronomy. With Kamiokande now ...
Read article 'Relic neutrinos, a challenge for the next millennium'
Neutrinos created in the first seconds after the Big Bang could hold vital clues about the evolution of the universe. A workshop in Trieste looked at a wealth of intriguing possibilities.
Read article 'Are neutrinos seasonal?'
The Sun could be surrounded by a flat disc of neutrinos more than a billion times denser than the neutrino cloud permeating the rest of the universe.
