The Search For The 'Body' Of The Neutrino

An anonymous reader writes: "CNN has an interesting story about the scientists who are searching for proof that neutrinos have mass a half mile below Minnesota. Not alot of scientific theory but a good overall perspective on what is taking place. One of the more interesting quotes: "We're going to take a sawed-off shotgun and blast a bunch of neutrinos toward Minnesota and measure what sticks," said Marvin Marshak, a physics professor at the University of Minnesota."

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Re:Neutrino research

[bcrowell]

I still recall the big recent newsbreak when they discovered that they can spontaneously change to another form
Yeah, and that proved that neutrinos have mass, so both the CNN article and the Slashdot blurb are inaccurate. I'm sure there is something new that this experiment is going to be able to find out, something different than the solar neutrino experiments. But determining whether neutrinos have mass isn't it.

The MINOS site has a bunch of information, but I didn't have much luck finding any specifics on how it really differs from the solar neutrino approach. A bunch of it is PowerPoint files of people's talks, which I can't read, and a bunch of it is password-protected.