Scientists May Have Discovered a New Fundamental Particle: Sterile Neutrino (theregister.co.uk)

Artem Tashkinov writes: It needs more sigmas, but Fermilab boffins in America are carefully speculating that they may have seen evidence of a new fundamental particle: the sterile neutrino. The suggestion follows tests conducted by the MiniBooNE (Mini Booster Neutrino Experiment) instrument, located near Chicago. Its mission is to detect neutrino mass through their oscillations. In the Standard Model of physics, neutrinos, like all particles, are initially assumed to be massless, but some observations, like neutrino oscillation, suggest there's mass there. The experiment that possibly detected sterile neutrinos collected 15 years of data from its commissioning in 2002, and the results have only now reached pre-press outlet arXiv.

Over 15 years, MiniBooNE detected a few hundred more electron neutrinos than were predicted in Standard Model theory. The extra particles suggests there is a fourth, heavier flavor. The findings bring the MiniBooNE team tantalizingly close to a "result" -- it's a 4.8 sigma result, when "discovery" demands 5 sigma.

Comments

Where in the world...?

[PopeRatzo]

We have evidence of a new fundamental particle, but still no sign of Melania?

What good is science if they can't even track down an AWOL First Lady?

Re:Where in the world...?

[Mal-2]

She's hiding Barron from the fallout around his father being a serial whore-fucker who can't even keep himself from knocking them up. Let her have some peace, wherever she's hiding.