Sentences with phrase «mass of neutrinos»

And this, in turn, will allow cosmologists to put a limit on the maximum possible mass of the neutrino.

MINI MASSES KATRIN's spectrometer, shown here, will precisely measure the energy of electrons emitted in the decay of tritium, which will help scientists pin down the minuscule mass of neutrinos.

If he is correct, existing neutrino detectors might be able to detect the way the acceleron field affects the apparent mass of the neutrino.

One outstanding question regards the mass of the neutrino, an elusive particle with a mass so small that it has yet to register in any measurement.

«We should hopefully be able to make a prediction for the masses of neutrinos [ghostly particles that interact weakly with ordinary atoms] based on which masses are most commonly found in different bubbles,» he says.

Physicists at neutrino detectors such as NOvA in Minnesota, in addition to trying to determine the masses of the neutrino, are studying whether today's lighter neutrinos switch from one type (or «flavor») to another at a different rate than antineutrinos.

He says the precision of the measurements obtained so far in krypton gas has encouraged the team to move on to tritium — a goal Formaggio says may be attainable in the next year or two — and pave a path toward measuring the mass of the neutrino.

Formaggio says the group's results, published in Physical Review Letters, are a big step toward a more elusive goal: measuring the mass of a neutrino.

Astrophysicists put the upper limit of the mass of the neutrino at 0.28 electron volt, based on the distribution of galaxies according to the 3 - D Mega Z map.

Once destined to become water pipes, coins or ammunition for Roman soldiers's slingshots, the metal will instead form part of a cutting - edge experiment to nail down the mass of neutrinos.

But over the next year, he and Keating hope to analyze enough data from POLARBEAR, and its successor instrument — the Simons Array — to provide more certainty about the masses of neutrinos.

«This study is a first step toward using polarization lensing as a probe to measure the mass of neutrinos, using the whole universe as a laboratory,» Feng said.