Sentences with phrase «electron neutrinos oscillate»

Near the end of Professor Davis» life, a large team of researchers (~ 178 coauthors) reported that solar electron neutrinos oscillate away before they reach our detectors.

Not exact matches

The goal is to find out why neutrinos oscillate spontaneously between three «flavours»: electron,...

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.

Neutrinos and their antimatter counterparts oscillate between three types: electron, tau and muon.

And here, too, it stood to reason that some of electron neutrinos had oscillated.

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.

Because the ease with which one neutrino oscillates into another is related to the difference in those particles» masses, a suitably heavy sterile neutrino could explain the greater than expected number of electron antineutrinos.

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.

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.