{"id":13603,"date":"2026-06-10T16:31:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T16:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=13603"},"modified":"2026-06-10T16:31:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T16:31:47","slug":"an-underground-detector-in-china-unveils-its-first-major-findings-about-mysterious-ghost-particles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=13603","title":{"rendered":"An underground detector in China unveils its first major findings about mysterious ghost particles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><p><strong>By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN, AP Science Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A massive underground detector aimed at understanding the mysterious ghost particles in our universe released its first major results on Wednesday.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=13599\">UN nuclear watchdog board demands urgent Iran cooperation and access to nuclear sites<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory in China started collecting data in August with the goal of understanding neutrinos: tiny cosmic particles that date back to the Big Bang and whiz harmlessly through our bodies by the trillions every second. Yet they weigh almost nothing, making them difficult to sniff out.<\/p>\n<p>In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, the JUNO team unveiled its initial findings from two months of data collection \u2014 including some of the most precise measurements to date of how neutrinos switch between three varieties, or flavors, as they zip through space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really makes me look forward to more exciting results in the future,\u201d said physicist Kate Scholberg with Duke University, who had no role in the new research.<\/p>\n<div><ul><div><div><li><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"FILE \u2013 Workers labor near the cosmic detector housed underground...\" class=\"wp-image-13601\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7978f5690d147515d0cf062e30a1fe9b-1024x683.webp\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7978f5690d147515d0cf062e30a1fe9b-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7978f5690d147515d0cf062e30a1fe9b-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7978f5690d147515d0cf062e30a1fe9b-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7978f5690d147515d0cf062e30a1fe9b-1536x1025.webp 1536w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7978f5690d147515d0cf062e30a1fe9b.webp 1859w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>FILE \u2013 Workers labor near the cosmic detector housed underground at the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory in Kaiping in southern China\u2019s Guangdong province, Oct. 11, 2024. (AP Photo\/Ng Han Guan, File)\n<\/div><\/div><\/li><li><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"FILE \u2013 Workers labor on the underside of the cosmic...\" class=\"wp-image-13602\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d7618572f0d934bdee179eddbe2c6667-1024x682.webp\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d7618572f0d934bdee179eddbe2c6667-1024x682.webp 1024w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d7618572f0d934bdee179eddbe2c6667-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d7618572f0d934bdee179eddbe2c6667-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d7618572f0d934bdee179eddbe2c6667-1536x1024.webp 1536w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d7618572f0d934bdee179eddbe2c6667.webp 1859w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>FILE \u2013 Workers labor on the underside of the cosmic detector housed underground at the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory in Kaiping in southern China\u2019s Guangdong province, Oct. 11, 2024. (AP Photo\/Ng Han Guan, File)\n<\/div><\/div><\/li><\/div><\/div><\/ul><div><div>FILE \u2013 Workers labor near the cosmic detector housed underground at the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory in Kaiping in southern China\u2019s Guangdong province, Oct. 11, 2024. (AP Photo\/Ng Han Guan, File)\n<\/div><span>Expand<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<p>The spherical JUNO detector is located 2,297 feet (700 meters) underground. It examines antineutrinos that come from collisions inside two nearby nuclear power plants. Antineutrinos are equally mysterious, opposite versions of neutrinos that scientists can study to understand their behavior and how neutrinos work.<\/p>\n<p>When the antineutrinos meet particles within the detector, they produce a flash of light.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=13597\">Trump signs bill giving nearly $70B to his immigration enforcement agenda through end of his term<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are hoping the detector will help resolve the longstanding mystery of how heavy each neutrino flavor is. They think two are similar in weight and that the third is an oddball, but they aren\u2019t sure whether two are heavy and the other is light or vice versa.<\/p> <div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The initial results haven\u2019t answered that question just yet, but they show what the detector is capable of \u2014 and that it \u201cwill be able to test the finer ripples\u201d that separate the neutrino flavors and their masses, said study co-author Liangjian Wen, a member of the JUNO collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>Two similar neutrino detectors \u2014 Japan\u2019s Hyper-Kamiokande and the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment based in the United States \u2014 are set to begin data collection within the next decade, cross-checking the China detector\u2019s results using different approaches.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute\u2019s Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.<\/em><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=13595\">SpaceX wants regular investors to help its stock launch. Here\u2019s what to know before clicking \u2018buy\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory released its first results, offering precise measurements of how cosmic neutrinos switch flavors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-based-on-facts-either-observed-and-verified-directly-by-the-reporter-or-reported-and-verified-from-knowledgeable-sources","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>An underground detector in China unveils its first major findings about mysterious ghost particles - Silicon Valley Moving Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=13603\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"An underground detector in China unveils its first major findings about mysterious ghost particles - 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