Sentences with phrase «electron neutrinos only»

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.

Not exact matches

Only when shedding its invisibility cloak by transforming into an electron, muon or tau neutrino could the sterile neutrino be detected.

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.

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

Moreover, the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory was able to detect all three types of neutrinos directly, and found that the Sun's total neutrino emission rate agreed with the Standard Solar Model, although only one - third of the neutrinos seen at Earth were of the electrNeutrino Observatory was able to detect all three types of neutrinos directly, and found that the Sun's total neutrino emission rate agreed with the Standard Solar Model, although only one - third of the neutrinos seen at Earth were of the electrneutrino emission rate agreed with the Standard Solar Model, although only one - third of the neutrinos seen at Earth were of the electron type.

For many years the number of solar electron neutrinos detected on Earth was only a third of the number expected, according to theories describing the nuclear reactions in the Sun.