From the beginning of 2010, the T2K experiment will fire a beam of muon-neutrinos from Tokai on Japan's east coast, 300km accross the country to a detector at Kamioka. It hopes to investigate the phenomenon of "neutrino oscillations" by looking for "muon neutrinos" oscillating into "electron neutrinos".

A million pound detector has been built at the University of Warwick as part of a vital experiment to investigate fundamental particles - neutrinos. The experiment aims to measure neutrinos at the start of their journey and then again at the end 300 kilometres away to see how they've changed. Understanding neutrinos will tell us more about the physics of the universe and help explain why the universe is made of matter rather than anti-matter. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/your-details/335-the-t2k-experiment-from-tokai-to-kamioka-where-is-the-anti-matter

Is no one starting to think that the whole standard model is a crazy story? It seems so complicated.

Paul1 wrote:Is no one starting to think that the whole standard model is a crazy story? It seems so complicated.

Crazy or not, it has a lot of evidence that up to now it is correct.

Paul1 wrote:Is no one starting to think that the whole standard model is a crazy story? It seems so complicated.

No. What makes you say that?

LOL @ the SM Lagrangian !

Now I remember why I didn't become a particle physicist.

grrow wrote:From the beginning of 2010, the T2K experiment will fire a beam of muon-neutrinos from Tokai on Japan's east coast, 300km accross the country to a detector at Kamioka. It hopes to investigate the phenomenon of "neutrino oscillations" by looking for "muon neutrinos" oscillating into "electron neutrinos".

I recall a few years back where one of the photomultiplier tubes at Super Kamiokande blew up and started a cascade that took out thousands of them. I believe it is fully restored as Super K III, which I presume is the "far" detector they are talking about above. The cool thing is that way back in 1987 they were able to detect neutrinos from Supernova 1987A. Will be interesting to see what additional info they find on neutrino oscillations.