York University physicist on winning team for Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

(York University) York University physicist, Professor Sampa Bhadra, and her group are on the Tokai to Kamiokande team that received the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics on Sunday. The prize is 'for the fundamental discovery of neutrino oscillations, revealing a new frontier beyond, and possibly far beyond, the standard model of particle physics'. The $ 3 million prize for T2K/K2K is jointly shared with four other global collaborations.