https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59051779
A team involving nearly 200 scientists from five countries developed and built the Micro Booster Neutrino Experiment, or Microboone, in order to find [the sterile neutrino]. Microboone consists of 150 tonnes of hardware in a space that's the size of a lorry.
Its detectors are highly sensitive: its observations of the sub-atomic world have been likened to looking in ultra-high definition.
The team has now announced that four separate analyses of data gathered by the experiment show "no hint" of the sterile neutrino.
A new chapter
But this result is not so much the end of the story, but the beginning of a new chapter.
Dr Sam Zeller from Fermilab says that the non-detection does not have to contradict previous findings.
"The earlier data doesn't lie," she said.
"There's something really interesting happening that we still need to explain. Data is steering us away from the likely explanations and pointing toward something more complex and interesting, which is really exciting."
>what earlier data?
>"non detection doesn't have to contradict previous findings" how fucked are we guys?
A team involving nearly 200 scientists from five countries developed and built the Micro Booster Neutrino Experiment, or Microboone, in order to find [the sterile neutrino]. Microboone consists of 150 tonnes of hardware in a space that's the size of a lorry.
Its detectors are highly sensitive: its observations of the sub-atomic world have been likened to looking in ultra-high definition.
The team has now announced that four separate analyses of data gathered by the experiment show "no hint" of the sterile neutrino.
A new chapter
But this result is not so much the end of the story, but the beginning of a new chapter.
Dr Sam Zeller from Fermilab says that the non-detection does not have to contradict previous findings.
"The earlier data doesn't lie," she said.
"There's something really interesting happening that we still need to explain. Data is steering us away from the likely explanations and pointing toward something more complex and interesting, which is really exciting."
>what earlier data?
>"non detection doesn't have to contradict previous findings" how fucked are we guys?
