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.
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Finding that the electron neutrino is light would complicate planned experiments to search for a type of nuclear decay that would prove the neutrino is its own antiparticle.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 2, 2024
A particle that starts off as an electron neutrino, for instance, can turn into a tau or muon neutrino, and vice versa.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 4, 2021
An electron neutrino, say, can emerge from a nuclear reactor in one place and appear in a detector somewhere else as a muon neutrino.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2018
Although it is not intuitively obvious, such neutrino oscillations can happen only if the mass of the electron neutrino is not zero.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
Experimental evidence indicates that neutrinos come in three varieties: the electron neutrino, the muon neutrino and the tau neutrino.
From Time Magazine Archive
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