The international research team that found neutrinos traveling faster than light has done it again. It conducted another set of experiments and again found neutrinos that exceeded the speed of light. As in the first experiment, the researchers fired high-intensity, high-energy beams of muon neutrinos from the CERN SPS accelerator in Geneva toward the LNGS underground laboratory in Gran Sasso, Italy, 454 miles away. They then measured the speed at which the neutrinos traveled. This time, however, they used very short beam pulses rather than long beam pulses.
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CERN Do-over Results in Faster-Than-Light Particles ... Again
Posted by: Richard Adhikari November 19, 2011 05:00 AMThe international research team that found neutrinos traveling faster than light has done it again. It conducted another set of experiments and again found neutrinos that exceeded the speed of light. As in the first experiment, the researchers fired high-intensity, high-energy beams of muon neutrinos from the CERN SPS accelerator in Geneva toward the LNGS underground laboratory in Gran Sasso, Italy, 454 miles away. They then measured the speed at which the neutrinos traveled. This time, however, they used very short beam pulses rather than long beam pulses.