Researchers Detect First Neutrino Events at T2K Facilities in Japan
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 19:42
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Louisiana State University researchers, including graduate and undergraduate students, have been working for several years on an experiment in Japan called T2K, short for Tokai to Kamioka Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiment. The project aims to study the most elusive of fundamental subatomic particles - the neutrino. The team recently announced that they have detected the first neutrino events generated by their newly built neutrino beam at the J-PARC accelerator laboratory in Tokai, Japan.