A new first for T2K

The Japan-based neutrino experiment has seen its first three candidate electron antineutrinos. Scientists on the T2K neutrino experiment in Japan announced today that they have spotted their first possible electron antineutrinos. When the T2K experiment first began taking data in January 2010, it studied a beam of neutrinos traveling 295 kilometers from the J-PARC facility in Tokai, on the east coast, to the Super-Kamiokande detector in Kamioka in western Japan. Neutrinos rarely interact with ma...