New particle probably can’t explain nuclear reactor neutrino mystery

Experimental discrepancy seems due to faulty predictions instead

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NO NEW NEUTRINO  Scientists with the Daya Bay experiment in China, shown above, have determined that a shortage of neutrinos from nuclear reactors is probably due to a miscalculation, not a new type of neutrino.

Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab

A puzzling neutrino shortfall seems to be due to faulty predictions, not a new particle.