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New results from a more-than-decade long physics experiment offer insight into unexplained electron-like events found in previous experiments. Results of the MicroBooNE experiment, while not confirming the existence of a proposed new particle, the sterile neutrino, provide a path forward to explore physics beyond the Standard Model, the theory of the fundamental forces of nature and elementary particles.

"The results so far from MicroBooNE make the explanation for the MiniBooNE experiment's anomalous electron-like events more likely to be physics beyond the Standard Model," said William Louis, physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and a member of the MicroBooNE collaboration. "What exactly the new physics is - that remains to be seen."