Boffins quietly cheering the possible discovery of sterile neutrinos

6 years ago
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/04/miniboone_sterile_neturinos/

It needs more sigmas, but Fermilab boffins are carefully speculating that they may have seen evidence of a new fundamental particle, the sterile neutrino.

The suggestion comes out of experiments conducted by the MiniBooNE (Mini Booster Neutrino Experiment) instrument, whose mission is to try and detect neutrino mass. In the Standard Model of physics, neutrinos are assumed to be massless, but some observations, like neutrino oscillation, suggest there's mass there, which if proven would require a rewrite of the model.