Sentences with phrase «if electron neutrinos»

On the other hand, if the electron neutrinos contain the heaviest masses, then the additional Earth - induced mass would make them mix less with those of the other two neutrino flavors.

Not exact matches

But if they are within 100,000 times or so the mass of normal neutrinos — or a few thousand electron volts — most should still exist, with some occasionally decaying into lighter neutrinos and X-ray photons.

The sun was thought to produce electron neutrinos only, and if these particles were somehow morphing into the other two flavours as they travelled through space, it could explain the anomaly.

If the neutrinos encounter a plasma wave, interactions between the neutrinos and the electrons can cause the wave to grow rapidly.

«If all that energy goes to the electrons, then none is left for neutrinos,» Radford said.

This energy is used to distinguish if the original electrons were generated via a process that releases two neutrinos or no neutrinos.

In the paper, Glashow and Cohen point out that if neutrinos can travel faster than light, then when they do so they should sometimes radiate an electron paired with its antimatter equivalent — a positron — through a process called Cerenkov radiation, which is analogous to a sonic boom.

So rather than, say, a 10 percent chance of an electron neutrino turning into a muon neutrino, for example, physicists wonder if the odds are lower that an electron antineutrino turns into a muon antineutrino.

Physicists are not sure if the greatest, or heaviest, of the three masses is most likely to be an electron neutrino or least likely to be an electron neutrino.

On the very, very rare occasion that a neutrino interacts with another particle, if the reaction appears to produce an electron, then the neutrino was an electron flavor in its final moments; if it produces a muon, the neutrino was muon - flavored.

There are three known varieties of neutrinos — electron neutrinos, muon neutrinos and tau neutrinos — which are thought to have very small masses, if they have any mass at all.

In order to see if oscillation has occurred during the neutrinos» 500 - mile journey, the detector at Minnesota measures the relative fraction of mu and electron neutrinos.

«Similarly, if oscillations did not occur, scientists expected to see only one electron neutrino appearance (due to background interactions).