muon-neutrino

American  

[myoo-on-noo-tree-noh, -nyoo-] / ˈmyu ɒn nuˌtri noʊ, -nyu- /

noun

Physics.

plural

muon-neutrinos

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

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muon neutrino Scientific  

1. A type of neutrino associated with the muon, often created in particle interactions involving muons (such as muon or pion decay). The muon neutrino has a mass no greater than 0.49 times that of the electron and has no charge.

2. See more at neutrino See Table at subatomic particle

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Example Sentences

If neutrinos were massless and Lorentz invariance held exactly, the two waves would simply travel in unison, always maintaining the in-phase muon-neutrino state.

From Nature

However, small differences in the masses of ν2 and ν3 or broken Lorentz invariance could cause the waves to travel at slightly different speeds, leading to a gradual shift from the muon-neutrino state to the out-of-phase tau-neutrino state.

From Nature

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.

From BBC

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

From BBC

As to the first question, the standard model says that all matter is made of 12 particles with zany names such as the “charm quark” and the “muon-neutrino.”

From Washington Post