Sentences with phrase «electron neutrinos from»

In doing so, Daya Bay researchers searched for a faster, smaller oscillation imposed on top of the longer, slower one that accounts for the disappearance of electron neutrinos from the sun, which is dominated by a different mixing angle.

Another indication comes from a pair of experiments started in the 1990s in Russia and Germany that was designed to sense electron neutrinos from the sun.

Not exact matches

The three types of neutrino — electron, tau and muon — interact with the matter in slightly different ways, with the more massive muon and tau varieties able to escape from deeper within the neutron star.

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.

It is possible, the researchers say, that during this interaction neutrinos may flip from one type to another: an electron - type neutrino may change to a tau type, which could then quickly escape.

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.

On the way, the neutrinos and anti-neutrinos spontaneously change «flavor» from muon neutrinos or anti-neutrinos, to electron neutrinos or anti-neutrinos.

In neutrinos, which come in three types — electron, muon and tau — CP violation can be measured by observing how neutrinos oscillate, or change from one type to another.

Another strike against the speedy neutrinos comes from the fact that neutrinos are linked to certain other particles — electrons, muons and tau particles — via the weak nuclear force.

The SNO researchers measured the flux of electron - neutrinos and compared it to earlier results from Super-K, which used ordinary water.

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

The latest evidence for sterile neutrinos emerged in 2011, when a team of theorists argued that various experiments that detect electron antineutrinos from nearby nuclear reactors saw fewer antineutrinos than they should.

One of the most important questions in physics that can be addressed from these data is the mass of the weakly interacting neutrino, which was thought to have no mass, but current limits indicate that neutrinos have masses below 1.5 electron volts.

Another strange thing about neutrinos is that they come in at least three types or «flavours» — tau, electron and muon — and can morph from one flavour to another.

Now, results from a Japanese experiment called T2K have tentatively added a new kind of transformation to the list of allowed types — the metamorphosis of muon neutrinos into electron neutrinos.

Scientists will extract information about neutrino oscillations — transmutations of electron neutrino, muon neutrino and tau neutrino «flavors» from one to another.