{"id":212281,"date":"2025-04-24T01:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T06:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/search-for-sterile-neutrinos-continues-at-nuclear-reactors"},"modified":"2025-04-24T01:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T06:22:11","slug":"search-for-sterile-neutrinos-continues-at-nuclear-reactors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/search-for-sterile-neutrinos-continues-at-nuclear-reactors","title":{"rendered":"Search for sterile neutrinos continues at nuclear reactors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/search-for-sterile-neutrinos-continues-at-nuclear-reactors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neutrinos, elusive fundamental particles, can act as a window into the center of a nuclear reactor, the interior of the Earth, or some of the most dynamic objects in the universe. Their tendency to change \u201cflavors\u201d may provide clues into the prominence of matter over antimatter in the universe or explain the existence of dark matter.<\/p>\n<p>Physicists are particularly interested in proving the existence of \u201csterile\u201d neutrinos. Their discovery would reveal a new form of matter that interacts only with gravity and could influence the evolution of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.134.151802\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, a team of researchers from U.S. universities and national laboratories has set stringent limits on the existence and mass of sterile neutrinos. While they have yet to find the particles, they now know where not to look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neutrinos, elusive fundamental particles, can act as a window into the center of a nuclear reactor, the interior of the Earth, or some of the most dynamic objects in the universe. Their tendency to change \u201cflavors\u201d may provide clues into the prominence of matter over antimatter in the universe or explain the existence of dark [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385,873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212281","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=212281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}