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  • two leptons, the electron and electron-neutrino; and two quarks, called ... nearly massless neutral particle called a neutrino (such as the electron neutrino ...
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  • a neutron, a positron, and an electron neutrino (a type of neutrino associated ... the first physical evidence of the neutrino. In 1911, Lise Meitner and ...
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  • two leptons, the electron and electron-neutrino; and two quarks, called ... :: Electron neutrino ( link=yes|Electron neutrino ) :: Muon neutrino ( ...
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  • an inner shell) and forms a neutron and a neutrino. As a result, the number ... is captured by a proton in the nucleus, forming a neutron and a neutrino ...
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  • Earth to be detected in one of the many neutrino telescopes, such as the ... and (by now) routine detection of the neutrino. [[Image:CDMS parameter ...
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  • ::Leptons—electron neutrino, electron, muon neutrino, muon, tauon ... | electron neutrino || electron neutrino || muon neutrino|| Muon neutrino ...
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  • Two leptons (electron and electron-neutrino), and two quarks, (Up and Down). ... a down-type lepton, and its corresponding neutrino) form what is known as a ...
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  • ::Leptons--electron, muon, tau, electron neutrino, muon neutrino, ... family, first generation, is the electron neutrino. This is like a tiny Moebius ...
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  • Two leptons, the electron and electron-neutrino; and two quarks, called ... flavors of lepton, the electron and the neutrino. A proton is composed of ...
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  • In recent years, measurements of neutrino mass have provided the first ... interesting experiments such as [http://neutrino.kek.jp/ K2K], a neutrino ...
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  • waves are extremely difficult to detect. Neutrino observatories have also ... * Neutrino astronomy (future prospects) ==Theoretical astrophysics== ...
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  • Lev Davidovich Landau (January 22, 1908 – April 1, 1968) was a prominent Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas ...
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  • flips things such as spin—a left neutrino becomes a right antineutrino—electric charge—a negative electron becomes a positive positron—and ...
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  • a better understanding of the effects of neutrino oscillation. ... ===Solar neutrino problem=== For many years the number of solar electron ...
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  • neutron fragments into a proton, electron, neutrino) is accompanied by the emission of a neutrino which also carries energy away, the beta spectrum does ...
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  • One kind of hot dark matter is known, the neutrino. Neutrinos have a very small ... the standard model that explain the small neutrino mass through the seesaw ...
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  • The term baryon usually refers to a subatomic particle composed of three quarks. The Particle Adventure, [http://www.particleadventure.org/frameless/hadrons ...
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  • After the discovery of neutrino mass, and leaving out the theta angle, [http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/constants.html John Baez] (2002) noted ...
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  • It decays into a muon and one neutrino with a mean life of 0.0026 ... Three varieties of neutrino are produced when the unstable particles ...
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  • large, and deuterium was successfully used as a neutrino target in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory experiment. == Nuclear physics of the deuterium ...
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  • two fragments ejected from the nucleus, a neutrino and an electron (called ... decay || A nucleus emits a positron and a neutrino || (A, Z-1) ...
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  • Neutrino flux measurements from the Earth's core (kamLAND) show the source of about two-thirds of the heat in the inner core is the radioactive ...
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  • at the time and that led to the discovery of the neutrino. ===Interment during World War I=== It was just before World War I, and as the outbreak ...
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  • It was Fermi who gave the neutrino its name. The neutron had just been discovered by Chadwick in 1932. Fermi was giving a lecture and mentioned ...
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  • for. An experiment to test for the mass of the neutrino or decay of the proton (small departures from the model), for example, would be more likely ...
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  • Category:Public [[image:Moon.crater.arp.750pix.jpg|thumb|right|275px|Lunar astronomy: the large crater is [[Daedalus (crater)|Daedalus]], photographed ...
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  • billion years ago. Measurements of natural neutrino emission have demonstrated that around half of the heat emanating from the Earth's core results ...
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  • Outer space (often called space) consists of the relatively empty regions of the universe outside the atmospheres of celestial bodies. Outer ...
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  • or from +0 to +3 (positron). The electron anti-neutrino (+3) and electron neutrino (-3)represent three quanta of fermionic spin within the spacetime ...
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  • In nuclear physics, a nuclear reaction is a process in which two atomic nuclei or nuclear particles collide to produce products different from ...
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  • The Chandrasekhar limit limits the mass of bodies made from electron-degenerate matter, a dense form of matter which consists of atomic nuclei ...
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  • a new and elusive particle, the neutrino. == Major Publications == *Bohr, N. 1913. [http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webdocs/Chem-History/Bohr/Bohr ...
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  • 1993, it was home to the Homestake Chlorine Solar Neutrino Experiment, famous for detecting the solar neutrino problem. The South Dakota State Legislature ...
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  • and the detection medium for the largest neutrino telescope in the world, ... [https://www.livescience.com/9164-world-largest-neutrino-observatory ...
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  • where e+ is a positron, γ is a gamma ray photon, νe is a neutrino, and H and He are isotopes of hydrogen and helium, respectively. The energy ...
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  • In physics and nuclear chemistry, nuclear fusion is the process by which multiple atomic particles join together to form a heavier nucleus. It ...
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  • A vacuum is a volume of space that is essentially empty of matter, so that gaseous pressure is much less than standard atmospheric pressure. ...
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  • The Big Bang is the cosmological model of the universe whose primary assertion is that the universe has expanded into its current state from ...
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  • * The Neutrino (1966) * Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor (1971) * Our World in Space (1974) * The Collapsing Universe (1977) ISBN 0-671-81738-8 ...
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  • neutron into an electron, a proton, and an anti-neutrino). Although E.C. George Sudharsan and Robert Marshak developed the theory nearly simultaneously ...
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