Researchers make headway in neutrino study

This article was written by Myra Lu and published by The Taiwan Journal on June 13, 2003. It reports that after six years of painstaking work, researchers on the TEXONO project, or Taiwan Experiment on Neutrinos, have published the first results of what is admittedly a small experiment compared to what is being done at international laboratories. Nevertheless, the significance of the contribution for all the Chinese and Taiwanese scientists involved is no less evident. The joint project between China and Taiwan has helped set a new upper limit to the neutrino magnetic moment, an indicator of the particle's inherent magnetism. The team has also accumulated data and provided an analysis of neutrino radiative decay. The research results were published recently in Physical Review Letters and have won the recognition of international counterparts.