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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Two sets of similar but heavier particles can pop into brief existence: the muon, muon neutrino, charm quark, and strange quark; and the tau, tau neutrino, top quark, and bottom quark.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 27, 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
It did: the muon neutrino, the second neutrino family to be discovered.
From Nature ● Nov. 4, 2018
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
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