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Study by Mainz physicists indicates that the next generation of neutrino experiments may well find the answer to one of the most pressing issues in neutrino physics
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Among the most exciting challenges in modern physics is the identification of the neutrino mass ordering. Physicists from the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) play a leading role in a new study that indicates that the puzzle of neutrino mass ordering may finally be solved in the next few years – thanks to the combined performance of two new neutrino experiments that are in the pipeline, the upgrade of the IceCube experiment at the South Pole and the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) in China. They will soon give the physicists access to much more sensitive and complementary data on the neutrino mass ordering.