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definition

An elementary particle that is classified as a lepton, and has an extremely small but nonzero mass and no electric charge. It interacts with the surroundings only via the weak force or gravitation, making it very difficult to detect.

For every particle except the neutrinos there is an antiparticle of the opposite handedness.

The fusion processes at the heart of Sun emit neutrinos of the electron variety.

Leptons A family of particles consisting of the electron,the muon and the tau, along with their neutrinos.

Indeed, dedicated neutrino detectors struggle just to record a handful of incoming neutrino detectors struggle just to record a handful of incoming neutrinos from potent nearby sources like the sun.

Remember that the tau decays to produce two neutrinos in addition to the muon.

In the process of fusing hydrogen to form helium, the nuclear reactions also produce elementary particles called neutrinos.

Experiments into solar neutrinos finds a surprising deficit in the number produced.

One chapter provides a self-contained introduction to weak interaction phenomenology, including massive neutrinos of both Dirac and Majorana type.