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neutrino
[ noo-tree-noh, nyoo- ]
noun
- any of the massless or nearly massless electrically neutral leptons. There is a distinct kind of neutrino associated with each of the massive leptons.
neutrino
/ njuːˈtriːnəʊ /
noun
- physics a stable leptonic neutral elementary particle with very small or possibly zero rest mass and spin 1 2 that travels at the speed of light. Three types exist, associated with the electron, the muon, and the tau particle
neutrino
/ no̅o̅-trē′nō /
- Any of three electrically neutral subatomic particles with extremely low mass. These include the electron-neutrino, the muon-neutrino, and the tau-neutrino.
- ◆ The study of neutrinos that come to the earth as cosmic rays suggests that neutrinos can transform into each other in a process called neutrino oscillation . For this phenomenon to be theoretically possible, the three neutrinos must have distinct masses; for this reason, many scientists believe that they have mass.
- See Table at subatomic particle
neutrino
- An electrically neutral particle that is often emitted in the process of radioactive decay of nuclei . Neutrinos are difficult to detect, and their existence was postulated twenty years before the first one was actually discovered in the laboratory. Millions of neutrinos produced by nuclear reactions in the sun pass through your body every second without disturbing any atoms .
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of neutrino1
A Closer Look
Example Sentences
Also, Einstein did not base his original proposal of photons on Max Planck’s work, and Wolfgang Pauli did not say the neutrino could not be observed in the letter wherein he originally proposed it.
The turbulent matter bouncing around behind the shock wave also has more time to absorb neutrinos.
He and two others, Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, shared the 1988 Nobel in physics for their technique for producing high-energy beams of neutrinos and for showing the existence of two types of neutrino.
The experiment switched on in 2007, detecting neutrinos from the sun for the first time almost immediately.
It is remarkable that his neutrino idea had emerged around the same time.
I made every last one of them, from the hunky handsome proton to the waifish, Starbucks-named neutrino.
"I think I am getting somewhere on my photon-neutrino-electron interchange-cycle," he announced.
The night he came home with six hundred newly-won credits, Hawkes opened a drawer and took out a slim, sleek neutrino gun.
He went on talking, about remote controls and radio transmission and positronic brains and neutrino-circuits.
And they know about the photon-neutrino-electron interchange.
The same thing goes for a proton or electron or neutron or even a neutrino.
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