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Wobbly oscillations

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Neutrinos seem to oscillate: they change back and forth between one type and another and, by extension, have a tiny mass. But one experiment that predicted a particularly large mass looks to have been mistaken.

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Figure 1: Cleaning up the oscillation signal.
Figure 2: Light signal.

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Wark, D. Wobbly oscillations. Nature 447, 43–46 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/447043a

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