The muon neutrino is an elementary particle which has the symbol ν μ and zero electric charge. Together with the muon it forms the second generation of...
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an electron of the same charge as the muon and two types of neutrinos. Like all elementary particles, the muon has a corresponding antiparticle of opposite...
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Weak interactions create neutrinos in one of three leptonic flavors: electron neutrino, ν e muon neutrino, ν μ tau neutrino, ν τ Each flavor is associated...
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over a cubic kilometer. Similar to its predecessor, the Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA), IceCube consists of spherical optical sensors...
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electron, muon, or tau) can later be measured to have a different lepton family number. The probability of measuring a particular flavor for a neutrino varies...
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as the electron neutrino, while the second neutrino is identified as the muon neutrino. The electron neutrino has a corresponding antiparticle, the electron...
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The Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) is a neutrino telescope located beneath the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station. In 2005, after...
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Cherenkov radiation emitted when an incoming neutrino creates an electron or muon in the water. The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory was similar, but used heavy...
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( e− ) and the electron neutrino ( ν e); the second are the muonic leptons, comprising the muon ( μ− ) and the muon neutrino ( ν μ); and the third are...
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years before the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012). Electron neutrino Muon neutrino PMNS matrix Perl, M.L.; et al. (1975). "Evidence for anomalous lepton...
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Sterile neutrinos (or inert neutrinos) are hypothetical particles (neutral leptons – neutrinos) that interact only via gravity and not via any of the other...
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properties of neutrinos. According to the Standard Model of particle physics, there are three flavors of neutrinos: electron neutrinos, muon neutrinos, and tau...
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T2K experiment (category Accelerator neutrino experiments)
the first experiment which observed the appearance of electron neutrinos in a muon neutrino beam. It also provided the world best measurement of oscillation...
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a selected charge: positive to produce the muon neutrino beam, negative to produce the muon anti-neutrino beam. Decay of the secondary particles in flight...
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OPERA experiment (redirect from Cern Neutrinos to Gran Sasso)
instrument used in a scientific experiment for detecting tau neutrinos from muon neutrino oscillations. The experiment is a collaboration between CERN...
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MINOS (redirect from Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search)
The neutrinos from subsequent decays of pions and kaons form the neutrino beam. Most of these are muon neutrinos, with a small electron neutrino contamination...
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except neutrinos, are also Dirac fermions; that is, each known fermion has its own distinct antiparticle. It is not known whether the neutrino is a Dirac...
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anti-muon. In the Charged kaon channel, evidence of the kaon is seen in its decay products, which are a predominantly an anti-muon and a muon neutrino. The...
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and top; Six types of leptons: electron, electron neutrino, muon, muon neutrino, tau, tau neutrino; Twelve gauge bosons (force carriers): the photon of...
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reconstruct the muon trajectories as well as the first to record atmospheric neutrinos underwater. AMANDA (Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array)...
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electron and the electron neutrino; L μ {\displaystyle L_{\mathrm {\mu } }} the muon number, for the muon and the muon neutrino; and L τ {\displaystyle...
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The six leptons consist of the electron, electron neutrino, muon, muon neutrino, tau, and tau neutrino. The leptons do not carry color charge, and do not...
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85 attoseconds (8.5×10−17 seconds). Charged pions most often decay into muons and muon neutrinos, while neutral pions generally decay into gamma rays. The exchange...
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matter for thousands of kilometres. The source of the neutrinos would be the decay of accelerated muons in straight sections of a storage ring. The technical...
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of −1 e, called the electron ( e− ), the muon ( μ− ), and the tau ( τ− ); the other three leptons are neutrinos ( ν e, ν μ, ν τ), which are the only elementary...
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the electron and the electron neutrino; the second includes the charm and strange quarks, the muon and the muon neutrino; the third generation consists...
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neutrinos. A convinced communist, he defected to the Soviet Union in 1950, where he continued his research on the decay of the muon and on neutrinos....
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MINERνA (category Accelerator neutrino experiments)
electron neutrinos in the neutrino beam, MINERvA has measured quasielastic-like scattering of electron neutrinos. Differences between muon neutrino and electron...
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with Leon M. Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, for the discovery of the muon neutrino. Through his career as an experimental particle physicist, he held positions...
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survival of muon neutrinos and anti-neutrinos. The primary goals of the ICAL are the following: Unambiguous and precise determination of neutrino oscillation...
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