{"id":109856,"date":"2020-07-13T03:43:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T10:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/scientists-demonstrate-a-new-experiment-in-the-search-for-theorized-neutrinoless-proc"},"modified":"2020-07-13T03:43:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T10:43:17","slug":"scientists-demonstrate-a-new-experiment-in-the-search-for-theorized-neutrinoless-proc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/scientists-demonstrate-a-new-experiment-in-the-search-for-theorized-neutrinoless-proc","title":{"rendered":"Scientists demonstrate a new experiment in the search for theorized \u2018neutrinoless\u2019 proc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-demonstrate-a-new-experiment-in-the-search-for-theorized-neutrinoless-proc.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nuclear physicists affiliated with the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) played a leading role in analyzing data for a demonstration experiment that has achieved record precision for a specialized detector material.<\/p>\n<p>The CUPID-Mo experiment is among a field of experiments that are using a variety of approaches to detect a theorized particle process, called neutrinoless double-beta decay, that could revise our understanding of ghostly particles called neutrinos, and of their role in the formation of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary results from the CUPID-Mo experiment, based on the Berkeley Lab-led analysis of data collected from March 2019 to April 2020, set a new world-leading limit for the neutrinoless double-beta decay process in an isotope of molybdenum known as Mo-100. Isotopes are forms of an element that carry a different number of uncharged particles called neutrons in their atomic nuclei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear physicists affiliated with the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) played a leading role in analyzing data for a demonstration experiment that has achieved record precision for a specialized detector material. The CUPID-Mo experiment is among a field of experiments that are using a variety of approaches to detect a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}