(ANSA) - Rome, May 22 - Detectors in the OPERA experiment of
the Italian National Nuclear Physics Institute (INFN) at the
Gran Sasso have detected that neutrinos travelling down at
almost light speed from the CERN lab in Switzerland are
shape-shifters and have a mass, according to a study published
in Physical Review Letters, a characteristic not envisaged by
current theories and which thus paves the way for a new physics.
The preliminary data on the capacity of neutrinos to
transform themselves date back to 2015 and now the "conclusive
proof" has arrived, physicist Giovanni De Lellis, coordinator of
the OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus)
experiment, told ANSA.
It is a result not predicted by the standard model of nuclear
physics, according to which neutrinos do not have mass.
Now it is certain, furthermore, that neutrinos are able to
transform from one type to another inside the three families of
these particles: electronic neutrinos, muonic ones and tauonic
ones.
Neutrinos proved shape-shifters (3)
INFN's OPERA experiment detects particles in Gran Sasso