New experimental findings could help us solve one of the biggest mysteries about the Universe.
"It would be pretty boring and we wouldn't be here," Prof Stefan Söldner-Rembold, head of the particle physics group at the University of Manchester, told BBC News.That's where the T2K experiment comes in. T2K is based at the Super-Kamiokande neutrino observatory, based underground in the Kamioka area of Hida, Japan.
Physicists think that finding a difference - or asymmetry - in the physical properties of neutrinos and antineutrinos might help us understand why matter is so prevalent compared with antimatter. This asymmetry is known as charge-conjugation and parity reversal violation. The result has also reached a level of statistical significance - called three-sigma - that's high enough to indicate that CP violation occurs in these particles."While CP violation involving quarks is experimentally well established, CP violation has never been observed for neutrinos," said Stefan Söldner-Rembold.Andrei Sakharov developed nuclear weapons for the Soviet Union but later campaigned for disarmament.
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