{"id":137816,"date":"2022-04-07T13:22:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T18:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/research-places-new-limits-on-the-bizarre-behavior-of-neutrinos"},"modified":"2022-04-07T13:22:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T18:22:28","slug":"research-places-new-limits-on-the-bizarre-behavior-of-neutrinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/research-places-new-limits-on-the-bizarre-behavior-of-neutrinos","title":{"rendered":"Research places new limits on the bizarre behavior of neutrinos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-places-new-limits-on-the-bizarre-behavior-of-neutrinos.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a laboratory under a mountain, physicists are using crystals far colder than frozen air to study ghostly particles, hoping to learn secrets from the beginning of the universe. Researchers at the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) announced this week that they had placed some of the most stringent limits yet on the strange possibility that the neutrino is its own antiparticle. Neutrinos are deeply unusual particles, so ethereal and so ubiquitous that they regularly pass through our bodies without us noticing. CUORE has spent the last three years patiently waiting to see evidence of a distinctive nuclear decay process, only possible if neutrinos and antineutrinos are the same particle. CUORE\u2019s new data shows that this decay doesn\u2019t happen for trillions of trillions of years, if it happens at all. CUORE\u2019s limits on the behavior of these tiny phantoms are a crucial part of the search for the next breakthrough in particle and nuclear physics\u2014and the search for our own origins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, we are trying to understand matter creation,\u201d said Carlo Bucci, researcher at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in Italy and the spokesperson for CUORE. \u201cWe\u2019re looking for a process that violates a fundamental symmetry of nature,\u201d added Roger Huang, a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Energy\u2019s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and one of the lead authors of the new study.<\/p>\n<p>CUORE\u2014Italian for \u201cheart\u201d\u2014is among the most sensitive neutrino experiments in the world. The new results from CUORE are based on a data set ten times larger than any other high-resolution search, collected over the last three years. CUORE is operated by an international research collaboration, led by the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) in Italy and Berkeley Lab in the US. The CUORE detector itself is located under nearly a mile of solid rock at LNGS, a facility of the INFN. U.S. Department of Energy-supported nuclear physicists play a leading scientific and technical role in this experiment. CUORE\u2019s new results were published today in Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a laboratory under a mountain, physicists are using crystals far colder than frozen air to study ghostly particles, hoping to learn secrets from the beginning of the universe. Researchers at the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) announced this week that they had placed some of the most stringent limits yet on the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137816","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}