Tag: neutrino
Neutrinos are mysterious particles associated with radioactive phenomena. They have little mass, no electric charge and can travel straight through the earth as they interact only very weakly with other matter. Neutrinos are numerous in the cosmos at large so have a significant influence on the events of the universe.
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CERN congratulates Nobel Prize winner Francis Halzen
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen for his contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, which discovered high-energy neutrinos coming from far beyond our Solar System. This work is paving the way for a new generation of observatories to exploit neutrinos as a unique messenger of extreme environments in the
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Paolo Emilio Strolin (1939–2026)
Paolo Strolin, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Naples Federico II and significant contributor to many CERN experiments, passed away on 28 June 2026 at the age of 87.
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The puzzle of neutrinos, seventy years on
Seventy years ago today, Clyde Cowan, Frederick Reines and their colleagues closed a quarter-century hunt with a paper in Science, having caught neutrinos streaming out of a nuclear reactor in South Carolina. The search had begun in December 1930, when Wolfgang Pauli, in a letter to the “radioactive ladies and gentlemen” gathered at a meeting
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First steel beams for DUNE start to be lowered
In a major milestone for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) in the US, approximately 4500 tonnes of steel beams will soon be moved 1.5 km underground to build the structural elements of two enormous detectors. CERN is playing a key role in DUNE, an international endeavour to explore the mysterious properties of neutrinos. On 7 May,
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ProtoDUNE’s argon filling underway
This will be a significant step towards testing ProtoDUNE for the next era of neutrino research
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FASER measures high-energy neutrino interaction strength
The interaction strength of neutrinos had never previously been measured in this energy range
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SHINE shines a light on neutrino beams
The NA61 experiment at CERN, also known as SHINE, has made new measurements that will help physicists work out the content of neutrino beams used in experiments in the US
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Live: Particle pursuit, a journey of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
Join CERN, Fermilab and SURF on 15 June at 6 p.m. CEST for its first gameshow-style livestream to learn about all things neutrinos
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CMS tries out the seesaw
The collaboration has put the seesaw model of neutrino mass to a new test