tau neutrino

American  

noun

Physics.

1. a hypothetical type of neutrino that would obey a conservation law together with the tau lepton, with the total number of tau leptons and tau neutrinos minus the total number of their antiparticles remaining constant.

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tau neutrino British  

noun

1. physics a type of neutrino associated with tau particles

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tau neutrino Scientific  

/ tou,tô /

1. A type of neutrino associated with the tau particle, often created in particle interactions involving tau particles (such as the decay of these particles). The tau neutrino has a mass of zero or near zero, and has no electric charge.

2. See more at neutrino See Table at subatomic particle

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tau neutrino

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

Therefore, if the particle is detected downstream from that source, it will have different probabilities of being an electron, muon or tau neutrino.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 21, 2020

The particle is shown with a sharply defined mass state combination associated with an electron neutrino at its source and one indicating a tau neutrino at its destination.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 21, 2020

Higgs boson is a spin 0 particle.This is the first elementary particle to be discovered since the tau neutrino in 2001. 

From Forbes ● Jul. 5, 2012

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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