Sentences with phrase «as electron neutrinos»

However, the result is still tentative because of the small number of events seen and because of the possibility — considered rare — that muon neutrinos could be misidentified as electron neutrinos.

Physicists with the SNO looked at neutrinos from the sun, all of which start out as electron neutrinos.

Two of those masses are likely to identify as electron neutrinos a significant portion of the time, and one mass only infrequently comes up as electron neutrino, says Messier.

Not exact matches

As these neutrinos pass through the planet, they interact with atoms, creating muons — positive or negative particles with a mass much greater than an electron's.

Other priorities include: upgrading the LHC, which shut down in February for two years to boost its energies from 7 TeV to 14 TeV; plans to build an International Linear Collider in Japan, to collide beams of electrons and positrons as a complement to the LHC's proton findings; and a major US project to exploit high - intensity neutrino beams generated at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.

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.

These include atomic constituents such as electrons, protons, and neutrons (protons and neutrons are actually composite particles, made up of quarks), particles produced by radiative and scattering processes, such as photons, neutrinos, and muons, as well as a wide range of exotic particles.

The key lies not in individual reactions between neutrinos and electrons, but in the way the vast numbers of neutrinos affect wave - like fluctuations in the density of electrons in the plasma, known as «plasma waves».

As Guth points out, to create something resembling our universe would require «1089 photons, 1089 electrons, 1089 positrons, 1089 neutrinos, 1089 antineutrinos, 1079 protons, and 1079 neutrons.»

Because of that link, neutrinos can't travel faster than light unless electrons do too — although electrons needn't travel as fast as the neutrinos.

These particles include atomic constituents such as electrons, protons, and neutrons (protons and neutrons are actually composite particles, made up of quarks), as well as other particles such as photons and neutrinos which are produced copiously in the sun.

Super-K detected muon - and tau - neutrinos, too, although not as well as it detected electron - neutrinos.

Scientists know the mass of every other fundamental particle, such as the electron, but the neutrino — at least a million times as light as the electron — is far more elusive because of its transformative ways.

Along with quarks, the family of particles known as leptons (neutrinos, electrons, muons and tau particles) composes the elementary constituents of the universe.

The CDF workers looked for decay products, such as electrons, muons, neutrinos and mesons, of these particles.

As Formaggio explains it, when a radioactive atom such as tritium decays, it turns into an isotope of helium and, in the process, also releases an electron and a neutrinAs Formaggio explains it, when a radioactive atom such as tritium decays, it turns into an isotope of helium and, in the process, also releases an electron and a neutrinas tritium decays, it turns into an isotope of helium and, in the process, also releases an electron and a neutrino.

Called the NuMI Off - axis Electron Neutrino Appearance experiment, or NOvA, the project relies on a 15,400 - ton detector containing 3 million gallons of a liquid solution with a material known as a scintillator.

One possible solution is that neutrinos oscillate — that is, the electron neutrinos created in the sun change into muon - or tau - neutrinos as they travel to the earth.

The SNO's results were taken as evidence that neutrinos have a mass, which allows them to oscillate between three flavors: electron, muon and tau.

Hardly interacting with other matter, neutrinos come in the three different types — electron, muon, and tau — and the winners of this year's prize showed that the three types can morph into one another as the particles zip along at near - light speed.

Since 1998, physicists have also known that neutrinos can change type as they zing along at near light - speed, so that a muon neutrino can become an electron neutrino, and so on.

Randall is also open to the idea of more particles, just as normal matter consists of a slew of subatomic entities, including quarks, electrons and neutrinos.

For example, an electron neutrino — more precisely, an electron antineutrino — emerges when an atomic nucleus such as tritium undergoes a type of radioactive decay called «β decay» and turns into a slightly less massive helium - 3 nucleus while spitting out an electron and an antineutrino.

This is the first time anyone has seen electron neutrinos show up in a beam of particles that started off as muon neutrinos.

But in 1937, another brilliant physicist, Ettore Majorana, introduced a new twist: He predicted that in the class of particles known as fermions, which includes the proton, neutron, electron, neutrino and quark, there should be particles that are their own antiparticles.

Conservation of the number of leptons — subatomic particles such as electrons, muons, or neutrinos that do not take part in strong interactions — was written into the Standard Model of particle physics.