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the article is incorrect, that the standard model has been confirmed. Neutrino oscillations are not predicted by the Standard Model. They were speculated to o
by MichaelCrawford 11y ago
the article is incorrect, that the standard model has been confirmed. Neutrino oscillations are not predicted by the Standard Model. They were speculated to occur back around 1980, as a result of the solar neutrino flux being one-third what the Standard Model predicted. The underground neutrino detector was only sensitive to electron neutrinos, not to muon nor tau neutrinos.
Neutrino oscillations were experimentally observed by shooting a beam of neutrinos through a long, narrow pile of photographic film at cern.
To the best of my knowledge, while we know that neutrino oscillations do occur, we don't have enough data yet to have adjusted the standard model in such a way that it predicts them.