neutrinos

Cosmic radiation from an unknown source. Illustration: depositphotos.com

After more than a century, scientists are finally getting closer to deciphering the sources of cosmic rays.

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Neutrinos are created as a byproduct of nuclear fusion, such as that which occurs inside stars. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Will neutrinos reveal why the universe exists?

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A collaboration between two leading neutrino experiments, NOVA in the US and T2K in Japan, paints the most precise picture yet of neutrino oscillations – and may come closer to explaining why the universe is full of matter and not
The KM3NeT experiment uses an array of light sensor modules fixed to the floor of the Mediterranean Sea. This image shows the deployment process of one set of modules. Credit: INFN/A. Simonelli 

The highest-energy neutrino to date was discovered in an underwater facility in the Mediterranean Sea.

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A still partially operational underwater neutrino detection experiment has detected what appears to be the highest-energy cosmic neutrino measured to date.
The Xenon top array detector array of the XENONnT partnership. PR photo

The international XENONnT experiment: first measurement of nuclear recoil from solar neutrinos

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Prof. Rani Bodnik from the Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics at the Weizmann Institute of Science is a partner in this research, and among other things built the control and calibration systems and took part in the data analysis
Finally the DOM experiment in the South Pole Telescope detector system is starting to give results. Credit: Mark Krasberg, IceCube/NSF

Bending reality: Einstein meets quantum mechanics in Antarctic ice

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Researchers examine the interface between these two theories, using ultra-high-energy neutrinos detected by a particle detector placed deep inside the Antarctic ice sheet at the South Pole
Photon Multiplier Tubes - A multiplier will detect flashes of energy produced when neutrinos interact with matter. Credit: Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

A huge facility in China will study the neutrino particles - mainly those generated from nuclear power plants

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The facility, named JUNO, consists of a huge tank that surrounds an array of detectors. The container contains a substance that causes a scintillation which is recorded in the detectors and thus allows to identify a neutrino event, its type and mass, since the neutrino particles change

The beginning of the universe in the eyes of science

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A special article in honor of Hebrew new year summarizing the creation of the world through the lens of science
A black hole emits jets of particles. Image: depositphotos.com

For the first time, a neutrino particle has been detected that came to us from the vicinity of a supermassive black hole

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A group of international researchers, including from the Hebrew University and the Weizmann Institute, discovered the particle that arrived following an emission event that occurred in 2019
A blazar fires a jet of cosmic rays and neutrinos towards Earth and is absorbed by the IceCube facility at the South Pole. Figure IceCube/NASA

A collaboration between the neutrino detector and a space telescope led to the identification of a source producing cosmic rays for the first time

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A deep perceptual change. Macdonald (right) and Kajita. Photos: Nobel Prize website

What a class, I have a mass! – Nobel Prize in Physics for the scientists who revealed the secrets of neutrinos

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