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The hunt for Majorana neutrinos hots up

Finding that neutrinos are their own antiparticles would revolutionize particle physics. A high-sensitivity technique accelerates the search for the nuclear-decay process that would enable such a discovery. See Article p.229

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Figure 1: Chasing Majorana neutrinos.

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Wark, D. The hunt for Majorana neutrinos hots up. Nature 510, 224–225 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13501

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