electron-neutrino

[ih-lek-tron-noo-tree-noh, -nyoo-]

noun

Physics.

plural

electron-neutrinos 

1. a type of neutrino that obeys a conservation law together with the electron, with the total number of electrons and electron-neutrinos minus the total number of their antiparticles remaining constant.

electron neutrino

1. A type of neutrino associated with the electron, often created in particle interactions involving electrons (such as beta decay). The electron neutrino has a mass of less than 4 × 10 ^{- 6} that of an electron.

2. See more at neutrino See Table at subatomic particle

Example Sentences

The subject of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics, neutrinos were seen to exist in three different flavours: the electron-neutrino, the muon-neutrino and the tau-neutrino.

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But unlike the Dark Knight, neutrinos have three identities rather than two: the electron-neutrino, the muon-neutrino and the tau-neutrino.

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