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A research team from the University of Cologne has experimentally confirmed the electron capture decay of technetium-98, a process previously only theorized, by detecting rare decay events using advanced shielding and measurement techniques, thereby enriching the understanding of nuclear decay pathways and updating the nuclear periodic table.
Physicists are racing to weigh neutrinos, the mysterious elementary particles, with the KATRIN detector in Germany currently leading the effort. Alternative approaches are being developed at various laboratories, with the goal of building scaled-up versions to compete with or improve upon KATRIN. These efforts are driven by the need to measure the tiny masses of neutrinos, which could potentially challenge current estimates from cosmology. Techniques such as electron capture and the Project 8 experiment are being explored to achieve greater sensitivity in neutrino mass measurements.