13-02-2025
Researchers from LIBPhys – Laboratory for Instrumentation, Biomedical Engineering and Radiation Physics (LIBPhys) NOVA FCT have published an article in the international scientific journal Nature, as part of the study “Direct experimental constraints on the spatial extent of a neutrino wavepacket”.
The research brought together several international institutions (from the USA, Canada, and France) and, from Portugal, LIBPhys NOVA FCT researchers Pedro Amaro, Mauro Guerra, Jorge Machado, and José Paulo Santos, responsible for research in the field of atomic theory. This result represents a significant advancement in the exploration of neutrino physics, also strengthening sterile neutrino models with masses in the keV scale. Despite their high relative abundance in our Universe, neutrinos are the least understood fundamental particles in nature.
The publication of the study in Nature represents an important distinction in a critical area of Physics.
Read the full study here.
