Last word on faster-than-light neutrinos
JUN 11, 2012
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.026093
Science : Neutrinos do not travel faster than the speed of light, according to at least five different teams of physicists. Last September, the 170-member crew of Italy’s OPERA particle detector made the startling announcement that they had found neutrinos to travel 0.002% faster than light. To verify the finding, researchers from OPERA and from the ICARUS, BOREXINO, LVD, and MINOS particle detectors have run tests, the results of which were presented last week at the 25th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics in Kyoto, Japan. In March, OPERA researchers determined that a faulty cable connection may have affected the result. In the wake of the controversy, two leaders of the collaboration resigned.
© 2012 American Institute of Physics
