Scientists could then pinpoint the trajectory of the particle, allowing them to better distinguish
between electron neutrino interactions and other events and thus determine whether there really is an excess of oscillations at low energies.
Not exact matches
The goal is to find out why
neutrinos oscillate spontaneously
between three «flavours»:
electron,...
The laws of physics may permit a
neutrino with a mass to change from one type into another, so
electron neutrinos may simply transform themselves into undetectable muon or tau
neutrinos before they fly across the 150 million kilometres of space
between the Sun and the Earth.
Bingham and his colleagues applied the same calculations, but with the electromagnetic coupling
between photons and
electrons replaced by the far weaker coupling that exists
between neutrinos and
electrons.
If the
neutrinos encounter a plasma wave, interactions
between the
neutrinos and the
electrons can cause the wave to grow rapidly.
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».
Neutrinos and their antimatter counterparts oscillate
between three types:
electron, tau and muon.
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.
That was the Liquid Scintillator
Neutrino Detector (LSND) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, which in data acquired
between 1993 and 1998 showed muon antineutrinos to be oscillating into
electron antineutrinos far more readily than expected.
All we know for sure is that there is a symmetry
between photons, Ws and Zs, among the, it's the same symmetry among different types of quarks among
electrons and
neutrinos.
Scientists have long suspected that these elementary particles, which are produced by the decay of radioactive elements, have a unique trait — they can change, or «oscillate,»
between their three known types, or «flavors» — the
electron neutrino, the muon
neutrino and the tau
neutrino.
These particles, which are produced by the decay of radioactive elements, have a unique trait — they can change, or «oscillate,»
between their three known types, or «flavors» — the
electron neutrino, the muon
neutrino and the tau
neutrino.