neutrino
any of the massless or nearly massless electrically neutral leptons. There is a distinct kind of neutrino associated with each of the massive leptons.
Origin of neutrino
1- Compare antineutrino, lepton2, conservation of lepton number.
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Also, Einstein did not base his original proposal of photons on Max Planck’s work, and Wolfgang Pauli did not say the neutrino could not be observed in the letter wherein he originally proposed it.
‘Fundamentals’ shows how reality is built from a few basic ingredients | Tom Siegfried | January 26, 2021 | Science NewsThe turbulent matter bouncing around behind the shock wave also has more time to absorb neutrinos.
He and two others, Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, shared the 1988 Nobel in physics for their technique for producing high-energy beams of neutrinos and for showing the existence of two types of neutrino.
Jack Steinberger, Nobel laureate in physics, dies at 99 | Martin Weil | December 17, 2020 | Washington PostThe experiment switched on in 2007, detecting neutrinos from the sun for the first time almost immediately.
We still don’t really know what’s inside the sun—but that could change very soon | Charlie Wood | November 30, 2020 | Popular-ScienceIt is remarkable that his neutrino idea had emerged around the same time.
The Synchronicity of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung - Issue 93: Forerunners | Paul Halpern | November 18, 2020 | Nautilus
I made every last one of them, from the hunky handsome proton to the waifish, Starbucks-named neutrino.
"I think I am getting somewhere on my photon-neutrino-electron interchange-cycle," he announced.
The Mercenaries | Henry Beam PiperThe night he came home with six hundred newly-won credits, Hawkes opened a drawer and took out a slim, sleek neutrino gun.
Starman's Quest | Robert SilverbergHe went on talking, about remote controls and radio transmission and positronic brains and neutrino-circuits.
The Cosmic Computer | Henry Beam PiperAnd they know about the photon-neutrino-electron interchange.
The Mercenaries | Henry Beam PiperThe same thing goes for a proton or electron or neutron or even a neutrino.
By Proxy | Gordon Randall Garrett
British Dictionary definitions for neutrino
/ (njuːˈtriːnəʊ) /
physics a stable leptonic neutral elementary particle with very small or possibly zero rest mass and spin 1/2 that travels at the speed of light. Three types exist, associated with the electron, the muon, and the tau particle
Origin of neutrino
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for neutrino
[ nōō-trē′nō ]
Any of three electrically neutral subatomic particles with extremely low mass. These include the electron-neutrino, the muon-neutrino, and the tau-neutrino.♦ The study of neutrinos that come to the earth as cosmic rays suggests that neutrinos can transform into each other in a process called neutrino oscillation. For this phenomenon to be theoretically possible, the three neutrinos must have distinct masses; for this reason, many scientists believe that they have mass. See Table at subatomic particle.
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Cultural definitions for neutrino
[ (nooh-tree-noh) ]
An electrically neutral particle that is often emitted in the process of radioactive decay of nuclei. Neutrinos are difficult to detect, and their existence was postulated twenty years before the first one was actually discovered in the laboratory. Millions of neutrinos produced by nuclear reactions in the sun pass through your body every second without disturbing any atoms.
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