Scientists hoped a strange measurement in a nuclear reactor might signal a “sterile neutrino”. Read more at straitstimes.com.
PARIS - It was an anomaly detected in the storm of a nuclear reactor so puzzling that physicists hoped it would shine a light on dark matter, one of the universe’s greatest mysteries.
Since neutrinos were first theorised in 1930, scientists have been trying to nail down the properties of these shape-shifters, which are one of the most common particles in the universe. In theory, it would only answer to gravity and not the fundamental force of weak interactions, which still hold sway over the other neutrinos.
It was suggested that the missing neutrinos had changed into the sterile kind, offering a rare chance to prove their existence.To find out, the Stereo collaboration installed a dedicated detector a few metres away from a nuclear reactor used for research at the Laue-Langevin institute in Grenoble, France.
But it was not a total loss, offering a much clearer picture of neutrinos emitted by nuclear reactors.Meanwhile, the search for the sterile neutrino continues. Particle accelerators, which smash atoms, could offer up new leads.
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