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Elusive neutrinos' mass just got halved — and it could mean physicists are close to solving a major cosmic mystery
Physicists have scaled down the maximum possible mass of an elusive "ghost particle" called a neutrino to at least ...
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Scientists are one step closer to knowing the mass of ghostly neutrinos — possibly paving the way to new physics
Physicists have taken one small-but-consequential step toward measuring the mass of an elusive "ghost particle" called a neutrino — an achievement that could poke a significant hole in the ...
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Neutrinos Are Shrinking, and That’s a Good Thing for Physics
A new estimate of the ghostly particle’s maximum possible mass brings physicists a tad closer to understanding the universe. By Katrina Miller Katrina Miller studied neutrinos in graduate school ...
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Physicists Are Closer Than Ever to Solving the Puzzle of the Ghostly Neutrino’s Mass
That is but one of the reasons why, for something so supposedly abundant and fundamental, we know painfully little about the neutrino—not even something so basic as its mass. But neutrino ...
Pinning Down a Ghost Particle: Neutrino Mass Measured With Unprecedented Precision
Scientists from the KATRIN experiment have achieved the most precise upper limit ever recorded for the mass of the mysterious ...