The Institute for Corpuscular Physics (IFIC), the fusion centre of CSIC and the University of Valencia, hosted on Tuesday the 22th at 11:30 a.m., a conference by Pasquale Migliozzi, researcher of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN). Migliozzi is one of the researchers of the experiment OPERA. In the conference, he explained the new results recently published confirming the existence of neutrinos slightly breaking the speed of light.
These results, published last 18th November, were obtained through modifications in the rays of particles sent from CERN in Geneva (Switzerland) to the laboratory of Gran Sasso (Italy) in order to allow more accurate measurements and remove one of the source of error. The new results are not definite yet, but, once confirmed, they would represent a challege to one of the mainstays of modern physics: the special theory of relativity by Albert Einstein.
Pasquale Migliozzi is a researcher at the INFN in Naples and one of the authors of the two papers which have received gobal attention from physics. The first research paper on the experiment OPERA published last September the detection of neutrinos slightly breaking the speed of light (20 parts per million) when travelling from CERN to Gran Sasso (720 km away). The neutrinos are a kind of subatomic particles which have special features allowing them to travel practically without the need to interact with the rest of the mass.
In the second paper, published the 18th November, OPERA confirms this information after making some modifications in the rays of the particles sent from the CERN to Italy. These rays were separated for a better detection and analysis. Migliozzi will explain these modifications to the scientific audience from the IFIC at Parc Científic of the University of Valencia.
Last update: 24 de november de 2011 09:07.
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