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.
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Instead of a muon neutrino oscillating into a sterile neutrino and then into an electron neutrino, the neutrino source that provides the muon neutrinos could also produce heavier sterile neutrinos—or some other new particle.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 4, 2021
One of them was a previously unknown substance called a muon neutrino, which had different properties from other neutrinos.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2018
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
Observation and characterization of a cosmic muon neutrino flux from the northern hemisphere using six years of IceCube data.
From Nature ● Nov. 21, 2017
For example, a muon neutrino can strike a neutron in a nucleus, transforming it into a proton while itself turning into a muon—a heavier cousin of the electron—in so-called “quasi-elastic scattering.”
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 3, 2017
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