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Neutrino Experiment Restores Standard Model Symmetry 83

Posted by kdawson on Thursday April 12, 2007 @09:18AM from the eightfold-way dept.

perturbed1 writes "A Fermilab press release announced that MiniBooNE's latest results have salvaged the Standard Model of particle physics. The experiment ruled out the simple neutrino oscillation interpretation of the 1990s LSND experiment. Neutrinos have a tiny amount of mass, required by their oscillations, as observed in solar, atmospheric, and reactor neutrino experiments. Combining this mass with the LSND experiment's results required the presence of a fourth but 'sterile' neutrino, breaking the 3-fold symmetry of particle families in the standard model." Nice to see some good news out of Fermilab after the CERN debacle.

Submission + - Wales or Sanger? You decide.

Submitted by JasonFleischer on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @02:32PM

JasonFleischer writes: Scholarpedia is a Wiki that aims to fix the problem of author's credentials and article accuracy by using the peer-review system common to academia. Articles are written by experts in the field (typically the original inventors) who are elected by the public. Their articles are anonymously reviewed by other experts, and once accepted the author becomes the article's curator. Anyone can submit revisions to an article, but the revisions are moderated by the curator. Scholarpedia concentrates on covering a few topics (Neuroscience, Mathematics, Computer Science) deeply rather than all things shallowly. Currently, elections are being held for authorship of the article on Wikipedia itself (Who will win, Wales or Sanger?)

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