{open_quotes}Super{close_quotes} Japanese site gears up to sole neutrino puzzle
Ever since Wolfgang Pauli proposed the existence of neutrinos in 1930 to explain some puzzling features of the radioactive decay of certain atoms, expermentalists have labored hard to detect enough of the elusive particles to determine their properties. It took 26 years to prove that Pauli`s particle even exits-a feat for which Frederick Reines of the University of California (UC), Irvine, won the Nobel Prize last month. Soon, however, physicists will be capturing neutrinos in unprecedented numbers in a 50,000-metric-ton tank that will fill with water starting next month. Researchers hope that this colossal waterbath will yield an answer to one of the most pressing questions is cosmology and high-energy physics: Do neutrinos have mass?The $100 million experiment, called Super-Kamiokande, in located in a lead mine west of Tokyo. This article describes the work to be conducted.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 181855
- Journal Information:
- Science, Vol. 270, Issue 5237; Other Information: PBD: 3 Nov 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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