: the antiparticle of the neutrino
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Sitting still, a muon decays into an electron, a neutrino, and an antineutrino in 2.2 microseconds.
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Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
But the specific oscillation here, electron antineutrino to sterile neutrino, should take place quickly.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2023
Also present in this pool of particles were neutrinos, which are very tiny, weakly interacting particles, and antineutrinos, their antimatter counterparts.
—Anne-Katherine Burns, The Conversation, 26 July 2023
The light in each beat reveals two things: The first flash indicates the energy of the antineutrino; the second confirms that the particle was an antineutrino.
—Dolly Setton, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2014
Beta decays occur within atomic nuclei, when down quarks transform into up quarks, or vice versa, allowing a neutron to become a proton, or the reverse, by emitting an electron and an antineutrino, or a positron (the antimatter counterpart of the electron) and a neutrino.
—Andreas Crivellin, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2022
Electron scattering experiments measure where an electron touches a quark’s charge, and neutrino experiments measure where an antineutrino changes a quark’s flavor.
—Anashe Bandari, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2023
In such decay, a neutron in a nucleus changes into a proton while emitting an electron and an electron antineutrino.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 11 Jan. 2023
That can happen only if neutrinos are their own antiparticle, in which case an antineutrino would be emitted by a neutron and then — presto!
—Dolly Setton, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2014
Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
But the specific oscillation here, electron antineutrino to sterile neutrino, should take place quickly.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2023
Also present in this pool of particles were neutrinos, which are very tiny, weakly interacting particles, and antineutrinos, their antimatter counterparts.
—Anne-Katherine Burns, The Conversation, 26 July 2023
The light in each beat reveals two things: The first flash indicates the energy of the antineutrino; the second confirms that the particle was an antineutrino.
—Dolly Setton, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2014
Beta decays occur within atomic nuclei, when down quarks transform into up quarks, or vice versa, allowing a neutron to become a proton, or the reverse, by emitting an electron and an antineutrino, or a positron (the antimatter counterpart of the electron) and a neutrino.
—Andreas Crivellin, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2022
Electron scattering experiments measure where an electron touches a quark’s charge, and neutrino experiments measure where an antineutrino changes a quark’s flavor.
—Anashe Bandari, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2023
In such decay, a neutron in a nucleus changes into a proton while emitting an electron and an electron antineutrino.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 11 Jan. 2023
That can happen only if neutrinos are their own antiparticle, in which case an antineutrino would be emitted by a neutron and then — presto!
—Dolly Setton, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2014
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