A Six-Sigma Signal Of Superluminal Neutrinos From Opera!
Monday, September 19, 2011 - 05:30
in Physics & Chemistry
The news is all in the title. A unconfirmed rumor from the Opera experiment (see picture below), the neutrino underground detector in the Gran Sasso cavern in central Italy, tells that a measurement has been performed on the time that muon neutrinos take to travel from their production point at CERN to the Opera detector, finding that neutrinos take a handful of nanoseconds less than if they were traveling at light speed. This, apparently, is a very significant effect, since the experimental resolution on the timing is six time less than the observed time deficit.read more