Read article 'Neutrons cooled for interrogation'
Researchers at TRIUMF in Canada have reported the first production of ultracold neutrons (UCN), marking an important step towards a future neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) experiment at the Vanco...
Read article 'The case of the disappearing neutrinos'
Neutrinos are popularly thought to penetrate everything owing to their extremely weak interactions with matter. A recent analysis by the IceCube neutrino observatory at the South Pole proves this is n...
Read article 'Majorana neutrinos remain elusive'
Neutrinoless double beta-decay is only possible if neutrinos and antineutrinos are identical or “Majorana” particles.
Read article 'UK neutrino investment steps up'
The UK is to invest £65 million (€74 million) in the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) in the US, announced UK science minister Jo Johnson on 2...
Read article 'Construction of protoDUNE detector begins'
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) in the US, the cavern for which entered construction this summer, will make precision studies of neutrinos produced 1300 km away at Fermilab as part o...
Read article 'Miniature detector first to spot coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering'
The COHERENT collaboration at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the US has detected coherent elastic scattering of neutrinos off nuclei for the first time. The ability to harness this process, p...
Read article 'Neutrinos on nuclei'
A major focus of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is to search for new phenomena that cannot be explained by the Standard Model of particle physics. In addition to sophisticated analysis...
Read article 'Neutrino detectors on the move'
On 12 June, two large detector modules for the ICARUS experiment were loaded onto trucks at CERN to begin a six-week journey to Fermilab in the US. ICARUS will form part of Fermilab’s short-baseline...
Read article 'Search for sterile neutrinos triples up'
This summer, two 270 m3 steel containment vessels are making their way by land, sea and river from CERN in Europe to Fermilab in the US, a journey that will take five weeks. Each vessel houses one o...
Read article 'Baksan scales new neutrino heights'
On 29 June 1967, the Soviet government issued a document that gave the go-ahead to build a brand new underground facility for neutrino physics in the Baksan valley in the mountainous region of the Nor...
