Theoretical and Experimental Physics Team Up in the Search for Particle Flavor Change
Department of Energy, Office of ScienceScientists recently discovered that neutrinos have mass, counter to long-held understanding. This means that neutrinos can change flavor. Now, advances in theory and experiment are helping scientists to determine whether the neutrinos’ charged counterparts—electrons, muons, and tauons—can also change flavor and how future experiments can look for those changes.