Hamish Robertson was a Michigan State professor with tenure in 1980. Since his postdoctoral year in 1971, he had been there, and he was happy. I want to emphasize how appreciated and content I felt there, he says. It was and still is a fantastic location. However, he had started to formulate a concept with his buddy and coworker Tom Bowles that would take him far from MSU. They were coming up with a fresh experiment to determine the mass of the mysteriously light and elusive neutrino.
The former Homestake mine, which was the largest and deepest gold mine in North America until its closing in 2002, will host the l...
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Neutrinos are named such because they are electrically neutral and are a type of elementary particle that are mostly created durin...
A physics puzzle has been solved with a conclusion that is roughly as stunning as "the butler did it." Physicists have debated for...
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The international tritium neutrino experiment (KATRIN) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology has obtained a new upper limit on...
To understand why the neutrino can provoke a revolution, we need some history. In the early 1960s the situation in theoretical phy...