主题：大亚湾中微子实验国际合作组宣布发现新的中微子振荡 -- foursea

"It's not just a parameter, it's a gateway," says Robert Plunkett, a physicist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, who works on an accelerator-based neutrino experiment called MINOS.

In making a definitive measurement, the Daya Bay researchers edged out four other teams that were vying for the prize. Last June, physicists working with an accelerator-based neutrino experiment in Japan called T2K came close with measurements using a slightly different technique . Ten days later, MINOS released a similar result. In November, researchers working with the Double Chooz reactor experiment in northeastern France reported a result with large uncertainty. The RENO experiment in South Korea is also measuring the angle.

The result is significant for another reason, says Jefferson lab's McKeown. "This is arguably the most important physics result ever to come out of China," he says. Chinese particle physics has arrived, it seems.