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Follow-up links on neutrino mass story that I submitted to Slashdot, courtesy of the Slashdot discussion thereof.

MINOS experiment homepage

Richard Feynman lectures on particle physics (math-lite version)

UCI page with a short explanation of neutrino oscillations

Last but not least, a glimpse of the insider’s prospective, from a post by one of the MINOS collaborators:

It’s been a pretty exciting 10 years. The push to get everything together this last month has been exhausting. But after presenting the results on Thursday do we physicists take a well deserved break and party like 1999? Well, noooo. We spend Friday, Saturday and Sunday IN MEETINGS! Today (Saturday) we were there from 8:30am to 7:00pm discussing how further to proceed. We’ve got 50% more data “in the can” that we didn’t yet present (cross checks to perform, fits to perform). Plus plans for more data taking after the accelerator comes up again in June. Plus other physics results we’re still trying to extract. Plus more improved simulations to do in order to yield improved limits. Such is the life of a physicist.