2015 Nobel Prize in Physics
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald "for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass".
In celebration, our editors have drawn together this Collection of content from Nature, Nature Physics and Nature Communications. Some items are linked directly to the prize-winning discovery, others paint in interesting details of the neutrino story — which begins with Wolfgang Pauli’s postulation in the 1930s and continues today in a variety of imaginative experiments around the world.
Whether neutrinos originate in an accelerator, in a reactor, in the Earth itself, in the atmosphere, in the Sun or in a distant supernova; whether they are detected in deep mines, beneath mountains or in the Antarctic ice — their physics is undeniably varied, and fascinating. We hope you will enjoy this Collection.
News and Comment: includes accounts of the discovery of neutrino oscillations, and other milestones in neutrino physics, by previous Nobel laureates such as Frederick Reines, Frank Wilczek and Sheldon Glashow
Reviews and Research: includes some recent research in neutrino physics; a review of neutrino oscillation studies using reactors; reviews by neutrino pioneers Raymond Davis and John Bahcall; and a review of the history of 'the 17-keV neutrino'.
News and Comment
Nobel Prize 2015: Kajita and McDonald
Andrea Taroni
Nature Physics (2015) | doi:10.1038/nphys3543
News and Views
Particle physics: Neutrino deficit challenges conservation laws
Frank Wilczek
Nature 391, 123-124 (08 January 1998) | doi:10.1038/34289
News and Views
High-energy physics: Neutrinos reveal split personalities
John N. Bahcall
Nature 412, 29-31 (05 July 2001) | doi:10.1038/35083665
Editorial
Blessings of mixed neutrinos
Nature 142, 1 (05 July 2001) | doi:10.1038/35083704
Progress
The Neutrino
Frederick Reines & Clyde L. Cowan Jun.
Nature 178, 446-449 (01 September 1956) | doi:10.1038/178446a0
News and Views
Neutrino weight watching
A. de Rújula & S. L. Glashow
Nature 286, 755-756 (21 August 1980) | doi:10.1038/286755a0
Book Review
Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy
Andrea Taroni
Nature Physics 11, 207 (2015) | doi:10.1038/nphys3278
Perspective
Majorana returns
Frank Wilczek
Nature Physics 5, 614-618 (2009) | doi:10.1038/nphys1380
Editorial
To him who waits
Nature Physics 2, 425 (2006) | doi:10.1038/nphys357
News Feature
On the trail of the neutrino
Dan Falk
Nature 411, 10-12 (3 May 2001) | doi:10.1038/35075157
News
Age of the neutrino: Plans to decipher mysterious particle take shape
Elizabeth Gibney
Nature 524, 148-149 (13 August 2015) | doi:10.1038/524148
Editorial
Publish and be damned
Nature Physics 8, 351 (2012) | doi: 10.1038/nphys2323
News and Views
Neutrino physics: Number crunch
David Wark
Nature Physics 8, 359-360 (2012) | doi:10.1038/nphys2311
News and Views
Particle physics: Sterile neutrinos
William C. Louis
Nature 478, 328-329 (20 October 2011) | doi:10.1038/478328a
News and Views
Particle physics: Now you see them, now you don't
David Wark
Nature 421, 485-486 (30 January 2003) | doi:10.1038/421485a
News and Views
Obituary: Yoji Totsuka (1942-2008)
Henry W. Sobel & Yoichiro Suzuki
Nature 454, 954 (21 August 2008) | doi:10.1038/454954a
News and Views
Obituary: Raymond Davis Jr (1914-2006)
James R. Distel
Nature 442, 150 (13 July 2006) | doi:10.1038/442150a
News and Views
Obituary: John Norris Bahcall 1935-2005
Jeremiah P. Ostriker
Nature 437, 43 (01 September 2005) | doi:10.1038/437043a
