Elusive 'Superman' particle caught changing flavor

Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 13:00 in Physics & Chemistry

By Tia GhoseLiveScience Physicists at an underground laboratory have caught an ultra-rare particle in the act of reappearing.For only the third time, scientists have detected elementary particles called neutrinos in the act of changing from one type, called muon, to another, called tau, on the several-hundred-mile trip between two laboratories. "It proves that the muon neutrinos are some kind of S...

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