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RE: Unraveling neutrino anomalies with (a lot of) oil at MiniBooNe
The symmetries underlying the Standard Model, taken together with the experimental constraints on the form of the neutrino interactions, moreover impose that neutrinos are massless.
I first came in contact with neutrinos when I was writing my last post about the speed of light. There was an experiment that tried to prove that these particles could travel faster than light but it was later discovered that the scientists were actually wrong and the lead scientist, Antonio Ereditato, had to resign. The story was briefly narrated here
The experiment was not trying to proof they were traveling faster than light. This experiment, the OPERA experiment, was studying neutrino oscillation and the fact that tau neutrinos could appear. In 2011/2012, they measured something weird: neutrinos were apparently traveling faster than the speed of light in the vacuum, breaking the golden rule of special relativity. They didn't know why. After a year, it was found that a faulty connection made the measurements wrong (and special relativity was saved).
If you want to know more about the final results of OPERA, I can only recommend reading one of my last posts.
Oh thank you very much!
The pleasure was for me :)
How long for though ;)
This can be seen s a good and bad news at the same time. It depends on which side one stands ;)