• The electron neutrino ( ν e) is an elementary particle which has zero electric charge and a spin of 1⁄2. Together with the electron, it forms the first...
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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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    Neutrino oscillation is a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which a neutrino created with a specific lepton family number ("lepton flavor": electron, muon...
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    comprise the electron ( e− ) and the electron neutrino ( ν e); the second are the muonic leptons, comprising the muon ( μ− ) and the muon neutrino ( ν μ);...
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    proton to a neutron and simultaneously causes the emission of an electron neutrino. p   +   e−     →     n   +   ν e or when written as a nuclear reaction...
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    of an electron accompanied by an antineutrino; or, conversely a proton is converted into a neutron by the emission of a positron with a neutrino in what...
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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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  • types (flavors) of neutrinos known in the Standard Model of particle physics, the Sun produces only electron neutrinos. When neutrino detectors became sensitive...
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    hypothetical) electron antineutrinos emanating from a nearby nuclear reactor and a detector consisting of large tanks of water. Neutrino interactions with...
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  • least three particles, which must include an electron of the same charge as the muon and two types of neutrinos. Like all elementary particles, the muon has...
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    errors of the experiment. Electron neutrino Neutrino oscillation PMNS matrix Tau neutrino I.V. Anicin (2005). "The Neutrino - Its Past, Present and Future"...
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  • 12 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...
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    electric charge 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...
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    a neutrino converts the neutron in a deuteron to a proton. The neutrino is absorbed in the reaction and an electron is produced. Solar neutrinos have...
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    A solar neutrino is a neutrino originating from nuclear fusion in the Sun's core, and is the most common type of neutrino passing through any source observed...
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    are: 17.82% for decay into a tau neutrino, electron and electron antineutrino; 17.39% for decay into a tau neutrino, muon, and muon antineutrino. The...
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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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  • detected a total of 25 neutrino-events over a period of about 13 seconds. Only electron-type neutrinos were detected because neutrino energies were below...
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    charm, bottom and top), and six leptons (electron, electron neutrino, muon, muon neutrino, tauon and tauon neutrino), along with the corresponding antiparticle...
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    down quarks, the electron and the electron neutrino; the second includes the charm and strange quarks, the muon and the muon neutrino; the third generation...
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    of up and down quarks which form protons and neutrons, and electrons and electron neutrinos. The three fundamental interactions known to be mediated by...
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    Both the electron and electron neutrino can undergo a neutral current interaction via a Z0 exchange, and this is responsible for neutrinoelectron elastic...
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  • Sfermion (redirect from Electron sneutrino)
    September 2019. Masayuki, Nakahata; Y, Itow; Masato, Shiozawa (2004). Neutrino Oscillations And Their Origin, Proceedings Of The 4th International Workshop...
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    are verified mediators of neutrino absorption and emission. During these processes, the W±  boson charge induces electron or positron emission or absorption...
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    plus decay, converting into a neutron by emitting a positron and an electron neutrino (though a small amount of deuterium nuclei is produced by the "pep"...
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    an electron and an antineutrino, while proton to neutron transition (except in electron capture) causes the emission of a positron and a neutrino. The...
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  • are called "electron-like leptons", while the neutral leptons are called "neutrinos". Neutrinos are known to oscillate, so that neutrinos of definite...
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    bottom, and top; Six types of leptons: electron, electron neutrino, muon, muon neutrino, tau, tau neutrino; Twelve gauge bosons (force carriers): the...
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    protons to neutrons, emitting two electron neutrinos and absorbing two orbital electrons (double electron capture). If the mass difference between the...
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    electronic engineering, an electron hole (often simply called a hole) is a quasiparticle denoting the lack of an electron at a position where one could...
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