UA Physicists Play Key Role in Resolving Long-Standing Neutrino Question

By Chris Bryant

One of the world’s most closely monitored experiments recently yielded its initial findings. The results were made possible, in part, by three UA scientists who developed one of the primary sets of code used in key portions of the internationally-known effort’s computer analysis.

The experiment’s set-up, constructed at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is, to the non-scientist, bizarre. It involves a 40-foot spherical tank buried underground and filled with 250,000 gallons of baby oil, 1,520 specialized light bulbs, and the search for subatomic particles that, although invisible, whiz through the human body, and most everything else, by the trillions every second.

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