Read article 'Majorana neutrinos remain elusive'
Majorana neutrinos remain elusive
Neutrinoless double beta-decay is only possible if neutrinos and antineutrinos are identical or “Majorana” particles.
Read article 'Majorana neutrinos remain elusive'
Read article 'UK neutrino investment steps up'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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...
Read article 'Sterile neutrinos in retreat'
Sterile neutrinos in retreat
An experiment in Korea designed to search for light sterile neutrinos has published its first results, further constraining the possible properties of such a particle. Even though the number of light ...
Read article 'Funding injection for SNOLAB'
Funding injection for SNOLAB
The SNOLAB laboratory in Ontario, Canada, has received a grant of $28.6m to help secure its next three years of operations. The facility is one of 17 research facilities to receive support through Can...
