Sentences with phrase «electron neutrinos more»

Researchers with the T2K experiment found that muon neutrinos morphed into electron neutrinos more often than expected, while muon antineutrinos became electron antineutrinos less often.

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.

Using more limited data, Hill sees background signals and possible electron antineutrino events in roughly equal number, and concludes that there is no evidence for a neutrino mass.

Here, too, the experiment detected a different mix of neutrinos than expected — in this case, fewer electron neutrinos and more taus and muons.

The key for NOvA is that the greater the mass of the electron neutrino flavor, the more likely the beam of neutrinos will interact with the hundreds of miles of matter they cross on the way to the detector.

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.

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 more than three decades, physicists have been looking for, well, next to nothingelementary particles of matter called electron - neutrinos that have no charge and practically no mass.

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.

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.

In fact, of the total matter in the universe, the overall mass of the exotic particles is five times the overall mass of the «ordinary matter» we are more familiar with (matter made of protons, neutrons, electrons, neutrinos, etc.).