{"id":192150,"date":"2024-07-01T22:25:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T03:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/new-nova-results-add-to-mystery-of-neutrinos"},"modified":"2024-07-01T22:25:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T03:25:11","slug":"new-nova-results-add-to-mystery-of-neutrinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/new-nova-results-add-to-mystery-of-neutrinos","title":{"rendered":"New NOvA results add to mystery of neutrinos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-nova-results-add-to-mystery-of-neutrinos2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The international NOvA collaboration presented new results at the <a href=\"https:\/\/neutrino2024.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neutrino 2024<\/a> conference in Milan, Italy, on June 17. The collaboration doubled their neutrino data since their previous release four years ago, including adding a new low-energy sample of electron neutrinos.<\/p>\n<p>The new results are consistent with previous NOvA results, but with improved precision. The data favor the \u201cnormal\u201d ordering of neutrino masses more strongly than before, but ambiguity remains around the neutrino\u2019s oscillation properties.<\/p>\n<p>The latest NOvA data provide a very precise measurement of the bigger splitting between the squared neutrino masses and slightly favor the normal <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/mass\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">mass<\/a> ordering. That precision on the mass splitting means that, when coupled with data from other experiments performed at nuclear reactors, the data favor the normal ordering at almost 7:1 odds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The international NOvA collaboration presented new results at the Neutrino 2024 conference in Milan, Italy, on June 17. The collaboration doubled their neutrino data since their previous release four years ago, including adding a new low-energy sample of electron neutrinos. The new results are consistent with previous NOvA results, but with improved precision. The data [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192150","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}