Sentences with phrase «produce electron neutrinos»

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.

The sun's core should produce electron neutrinos in a range of energies, but detectors see fewer high - energy ones than predicted.

They know that the fusion processes at its heart produce electron neutrinos — uncharged relatives of the electron, and one of the three known types of neutrino.

The sun produces electron neutrinos, which perhaps are not disappearing, but transforming into other types of neutrinos that escape detection, for example muon or tau neutrinos.

Not exact matches

These include atomic constituents such as electrons, protons, and neutrons (protons and neutrons are actually composite particles, made up of quarks), particles produced by radiative and scattering processes, such as photons, neutrinos, and muons, as well as a wide range of exotic particles.

The liquid was chosen principally because it contains large numbers of protons, with which electron neutrinos would occasionally interact to produce a neutron and a positron.

These particles include atomic constituents such as electrons, protons, and neutrons (protons and neutrons are actually composite particles, made up of quarks), as well as other particles such as photons and neutrinos which are produced copiously in the sun.

The electron carries away most of the neutrino's energy and zooms away, producing a detectable flash of light.

In the process, positive electrons (positrons) and neutrinos (n) are also produced along with about 25 million electronvolts (MeV) of thermal energy for every four protons burned; one electronvolt is the energy an electron acquires by passing through a potential of one volt.

On the very, very rare occasion that a neutrino interacts with another particle, if the reaction appears to produce an electron, then the neutrino was an electron flavor in its final moments; if it produces a muon, the neutrino was muon - flavored.

The three neutrino types appear to be distinct: For instance, when muon - neutrinos interact with a target, they will always produce muons, and never taus or electrons.

In 1998, physicists found that some muon and electron neutrinos, which had been produced in the atmosphere and sun, had disappeared en route to the Super-Kamiokande detector in Japan, which can not detect tau neutrinos.

To measure the number of electron - neutrinos reaching Earth, the SNO team monitored miniscule flashes of light produced when the particles interact with molecules of heavy waterin which deuterium atoms replace the hydrogen atoms.

Under the extreme conditions that exist during the merger he says, pairs of neutrinos and their antimatter counterparts will interact to produce electrons and positrons, which in turn will annihilate one another to make gamma rays.

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.