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    Evidence Found for a New Fundamental Particle

    by Natalie Wolchover Jun 11, 2018 4 minutes

    Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.

    An experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago has detected far more electron neutrinos than predicted—a possible harbinger of a revolutionary new elementary particle called the sterile neutrino.Photograph of nside the MiniBooNE tank, photodetectors capture the light created when a neutrino interacts with an atomic nucleus, by Reidar Hahn / Fermilab

    hysicists are both thrilled and baffled by a  from a neutrino experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago. The  experiment has detected far more neutrinos of a particular type than expected, a finding that is most easily explained by the existence of a new elementary

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