MiniBooNE Findings Clarify the Behavior of Neutrinos

Bonnie Fleming with a photoreceptor from the MiniBooNE experiment. The initial data from the 10-year long “MiniBooNE” experiment at the Department of Energy’s Fermilab significantly clarifies the overall picture of how the fundamental particles, neutrinos, behave. The project was designed to confirm or refute surprising observations from the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) experiments in the 1990’s that were explained simply by the ability of neutrinos to transform from one type into another and back again, a process called neutrino oscillation. This research showed conclusively that there is more to the story.