Particles Unknown: Hunting Neutrinos | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS

Join the hunt for the universe’s most common—yet most elusive and baffling—particle. (Aired October 6, 2021)

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Outnumbering atoms a billion to one, neutrinos are the universe’s most common yet most elusive and baffling particle. NOVA joins an international team of neutrino hunters as they try to capture an elusive fourth form of neutrino. Their results may force scientists to redraw their blueprint of the subatomic world, the Standard Model of physics, and change our understanding of how the universe works.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
04:25 What is a Neutrino?
21:22 Detecting Neutrinos in the Universe
31:59 Neutrino Oscillation
36:01 The Standard Model of Particle Physics
43:45 The Future of Neutrino Detection

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