Still No 'Sterile' Neutrinos, but the Search Goes On

Reports of the non-existence of the so-called "sterile" neutrino are premature, say scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory--even as they release results from two experiments that further limit the places this elusive particle may be hiding. These results, described in three papers published in Physical Review Letters (PRL) by scientists working on the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment in China and the Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory--like results recently announced by another neutrino experiment known as IceCube--greatly narrow the "phase space" where scientists must hunt.

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