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Rory Harris

Chinese particle detector tests 'portal to physics beyond the Standard Model' — with outstanding results

A white sphere deep underground.

The first results from the world's largest neutrino detector have just been published, and they reveal the most precise measurements of neutrino parameters yet.

After running the detector — the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), in southern China — for just shy of two months, the researchers were able to measure the parameters of the different types, or "flavors," of neutrinos with unprecedented precision.

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