{"id":213425,"date":"2025-05-07T05:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T10:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/rare-silver-decay-offers-scientists-a-new-window-into-the-antineutrinos-elusive-mass"},"modified":"2025-05-07T05:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T10:25:10","slug":"rare-silver-decay-offers-scientists-a-new-window-into-the-antineutrinos-elusive-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/rare-silver-decay-offers-scientists-a-new-window-into-the-antineutrinos-elusive-mass","title":{"rendered":"Rare silver decay offers scientists a new window into the antineutrino\u2019s elusive mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rare-silver-decay-offers-scientists-a-new-window-into-the-antineutrinos-elusive-mass.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neutrinos and antineutrinos are elementary particles with small but unknown mass. High-precision atomic mass measurements at the Accelerator Laboratory of the University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4, Finland, have revealed that beta decay of the silver-110 isomer has a strong potential to be used for the determination of electron antineutrino mass. The result is an important step in paving the way for future antineutrino experiments.<\/p>\n<p>The mass of neutrinos and their antineutrinos is one of the big unanswered questions in physics. Neutrinos are <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/elementary+particles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">elementary particles<\/a> in the Standard Model of particle physics and are very common in nature. They are produced, for example, by <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nuclear+reactions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nuclear reactions<\/a> in the sun. Every second, trillions of solar neutrinos travel through us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir mass determination would be of utmost importance,\u201d says Professor Anu Kankainen from the University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4. \u201cUnderstanding them can give us a better picture of the evolution of the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neutrinos and antineutrinos are elementary particles with small but unknown mass. High-precision atomic mass measurements at the Accelerator Laboratory of the University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4, Finland, have revealed that beta decay of the silver-110 isomer has a strong potential to be used for the determination of electron antineutrino mass. The result is an important step in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213425","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=213425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}