This is the first elementary particle to be discovered since the tau neutrino in 2001.
He cautioned that the neutrino researchers would have to explain why similar results weren't detected before.
But occasionally a neutrino reacts with an atom to create a particle called a muon.
Others are created by electron scattering, when a neutrino of any flavour collides with an electron.
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They are already studied by smaller neutrino telescopes located in mines, and can thus be ignored.
There are three varieties of neutrino, and the math behind why they can change types is complicated.
After that, the mysteriously named Project X will push the intensity of the neutrino beam still higher.
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SAGE, hopes, against the odds, that Mr Bulgak's replacement will be a neutrino enthusiast, not a career bureaucrat.
Neutrino astronomy is hard because neutrinos (a type of electrically neutral elementary particle) are rarely absorbed by matter.
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The discovery of the muon neutrino gave Leon Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, and Jack Steinberger the Nobel Prize in 1988.
When a neutrino interacts in the NOvA detector , the particles it produces leave trails of light in their wake.
The detection of the electron neutrino by Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines gave Reines the 1995 Nobel Prize for physics.
What will soon be the most powerful neutrino detector in the United States has recorded its first three-dimensional images of particles.
The final nail in the coffin may have been dealt to the idea that neutrino particles can travel faster than light.
Such mutations, known as neutrino oscillations, were hinted at three years ago by results from Super-Kamiokande, an older apparatus in Japan.
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One argument for building the neutrino factory at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is that much of the infrastructure is already in place.
Once the upgraded Fermilab neutrino beam starts, the NOvA detector will take data every 1.3 seconds to synchronize with the Fermilab accelerator .
The detector records these streams of light , enabling physicists to identify the original neutrino and measure the amount of energy it had.
Dr Walther's work, much to the relief of many neutrino watchers, makes all the rewriting of the standard theories of neutrino behaviour unnecessary.
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This involves calculating the correlation between, say, the neutrino and sunspot numbers, and then shuffling up the neutrino numbers randomly and recalculating the correlation.
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Super-Kamiokande cannot actually count tau neutrinos in fact nobody has ever been able to detect a tau neutrino directly but the team did the next best thing.
The principle of underwater neutrino detection has already been tested in a small experiment at Lake Baikal in Siberia, so it is known to work.
The neutrino prize was shared by Raymond Davis and Masatoshi Koshiba.
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"What we are now seeing is a neutrino factory that will build upon our development since then of high power proton accelerators and target technology, " he explains.
That makes them difficult to detect, and means that neutrino telescopes have to be built underground to stop the detectors registering other forms of radiation by mistake.
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And when such a collision does occur, the pattern of light produced gives away not only the type of neutrino, but the direction it was travelling in.
Physicist Sergio Bertolucci, research director at Switzerland's CERN physics lab, presented the results Friday at the 25th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics in Kyoto, Japan.
Dr Biermann and Dr Kusenko think that one in particular of these hypothetical particles known as a sterile neutrino will turn out to be the main constituent of dark matter.
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