He worked for the Rutherford Laboratory in England for three years and was an assistant professor at Princeton University for six years. In 1987, he joined a research team at Los Alamos, N.M., specifically to investigate neutrinos. The multimillion research effort is being primarily funded by the Energy Department, with additional support from the National Science Foundation, Louis said. Louis said a paper is planned for publication in a scientific journal. Our experiment is trying to measure the mass of neutrinos.
Neutrinos are among the main particles of the universe.
There are as many neutrinos as photons, or white particles, in the universe. And there are a billion times more neutrinos and photons than there are protons and neutrons. The way you try to measure it is a good example of quantum mechanics. What you look for is one flavor of neutrinos - neutrinos come in different flavors or different families. For example, there is a neutrino associated with the electron, and a neutrino associated with the muon, which is heavier, and another neutrino associated with the tau, which is heavier still.