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antineutrino

antineutrino \antineutrino\ n. The antiparticle of a neutrino. Each type of neutrino has a corresponding antineutrino.

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antineutrino

n. (context physics English) the antiparticle of the neutrino

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antineutrino

n. the antiparticle of a neutrino

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Electrons and positrons, neutrinos and antineutrinos, photons with billion-light-year wavelengths all swirled through the cosmos.

To read even an elementary guide to particle physics nowadays you must now find your way through lexical thickets such as this: “The charged pion and antipion decay respectively into a muon plus antineutrino and an antimuon plus neutrino with an average lifetime of 2.

The neutrinos and antineutrinos, however, would not have annihilated with each other, because these particles interact with themselves and with other particles only very weakly.

The whole kit-and-caboodle of pions, mesons, gluinos, antineutrinos, that whole strange charm of quarkiness, may come to seem a very twentieth-century enthusiasm.

The sensors were active ones, using treated antineutrinos which could be given superluminal acceleration but which lacked the virtual instantaneity of tachyon communications.

And just as the electron and antielectron are closely associated with electron neutrinos and electron antineutrinos, so are muons and antimuons associated with muon neutrinos and muon antineutrinos.