neutrinos

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Worlds between theory and experiment

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Once Isaac Newton showed that a single gravitational law plus his rules of dynamics could reproduce the orbits of planets that Johannes Kepler had predicted, explain tides on Earth, and predict that a…

Is the Higgs boson doing its job?

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At the heart of particle physics lies the Standard Model, a theory that has stood for nearly half a century as the best description of the subatomic realm. It tells us what particles exist, how they i…

The weekly linklist – July 25, 2020

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I've decided to publish this linklist via Substack. Next weekend onwards, it will only be available on https://linklist.substack.com. And this is why the list exists and what kind of articles you…

Physics Nobel rewards neutrino work, but has sting in the tail for India

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Uncategorized Arthur B. McDonald Bruno Pontecorvo Department of Atomic Energy IceCUBE neutrino observatory India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) Institute of Mathematical Sciences Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) Kolar Gold Fields neutrino mass hierarchy neutrino oscillations neutrinos Physics Nobel Standard Model Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector Takaaki Kajita

As neutrino astronomy comes of age, the Nobel Foundation has decided to award Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald with the physics prize for 2015 for their discovery of neutrino oscillations – a pro…