"Decades of weird experimental results appeared to support the existence of the sterile neutrino, a hypothetical particle that would solve multiple mysteries. But recent experiments have killed hope of finding these phantoms, leaving physicists to wonder what might explain their anomalies."

https://www.quantamagazine.org/experiments-ring-the-death-knell-for-sterile-neutrinos-20260408/

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Experiments Ring the ‘Death Knell’ for Sterile Neutrinos | Quanta Magazine

Decades of weird experimental results appeared to support the existence of the sterile neutrino, a hypothetical particle that would solve multiple mysteries. But recent experiments have killed hope of finding these phantoms, leaving physicists to wonder what might explain their anomalies.

Quanta Magazine
@sohkamyung Always fun to see old colleagues get written up. I was in more than one of those experiments.