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Virginia Tech research provides new explanation for neutrino anomalies in Antarctica

June 9, 2020 sarah Jonas Antarctica, Cosmic Rays, Neutrinos, Physics

A new research paper co-authored by a Virginia Tech assistant professor of physics provides a new explanation for two recent strange events that occurred in Antarctica – high-energy neutrinos appearing to come up out of the Earth on their own accord and head skyward.

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Daya Bay Reactor Experiment Continues to Generate Data

May 29, 2020 sarah Jonas COVID-19, Neutrino, Neutrinos, Pandemic

Largely unaffected by the pandemic, the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment in Shenzen, China, has continued to pump data to remote supercomputers for analyses.

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CUORE Underground Experiment in Italy Carries on Despite Pandemic

May 12, 2020 sarah Jonas Berkeley, Berkeley Lab, Coronavirus, COVID-19, CUORE, dark matter, INFN, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, neutrinoless double beta decay, Neutrinos, Pandemic

As the COVID-19 outbreak took hold in Italy, researchers working on a nuclear physics experiment called CUORE at an underground laboratory in central Italy scrambled to keep the ultrasensitive experiment running and launch new tools and rules for remote operations.

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Researchers home in on extremely rare nuclear process

September 25, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Neutrinos, Slac, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

A hypothetical nuclear process known as neutrinoless double beta decay ought to be among the least likely events in the universe. Now the international EXO-200 collaboration, which includes researchers from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, has determined just how unlikely it is: In a given volume of a certain xenon isotope, it would take more than 35 trillion trillion years for half of its nuclei to decay through this process – an eternity compared to the age of the universe, which is “only” 13 billion years old.