Particle physicists have gone to great lengths — including rowing onto the dark waters of a swimming pool-sized water tank and setting up a base in the Antarctic — to understand one of the universe’s ...

China’s Giant Underground Neutrino Observatory Just Released Its First Results—And They’re Promising ...

In high school you learn that matter is made of atoms, atoms are made of electrons and nuclei, and nuclei contain neutrons and protons. That’s a basic picture of matter, but it’s an incomplete one.

Deep underground in southern China, there is a 20,000-ton tank of liquid that can detect neutrinos. Named JUNO, the ...

A neutrino factory would be a completely new type of accelerator capable of producing huge quantities of neutrinos through muon decay that would pave the way for high-precision studies of the particle ...

Marcel Demarteau is director of the Physics Division at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. For topics from nuclear structure to astrophysics, he shapes ORNL's physics research ...

Neutrinos, nearly massless and electrically neutral particles, are abundantly produced in high-energy cosmic events but rarely interact with matter, making detection challenging. Detection relies on ...

Three-dimensional contours of quantum coherence in a neutrino moment simulation. The simulation starts with random initial conditions and develops structure in less than a nanosecond. This research ...

China’s Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory has moved from engineering marvel to scientific powerhouse faster than many ...

A deep-sea neutrino telescope has detected the most energetic neutrino ever recorded. The particle, known as a "ghost particle," was about 30 times more active than the previous record-holder.

Welcome to Neutrino Alley: Q&A with ORNL's Marcel Demarteau Marcel Demarteau is director of the Physics Division at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. For topics from nuclear ...