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neutrino
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Wikipedia
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A neutrino ( or ) (denoted by the Greek letter ν ) is a lepton (an elementary particle with half-integer spin ) that interacts only via the weak subatomic force and gravity . The mass of the neutrino is much smaller than that of the other known elementary ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"neutral particle smaller than a neutron," 1934, from Italian neutrino , coined 1933 by Italian physicist Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) from neutro "neuter" (see neuter (adj.)) + -ino , diminutive suffix.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 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.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an elementary particle with zero charge and zero mass
Usage examples of neutrino.
The Moties probably did the polishing, they must be all through those rocks, the neutrino emissions are fantastic.
Naturally, the more energetic a neutrino, the more likely it is to induce a nuclear change and the perchloroethylene detects only the most energetic neutrinos.
The advantage of gallium over perchloroethylene is that gallium will detect neutrinos of lower energy than perchloroethylene will.
In that region, he knew, the turbulence of the Air, lashed by the neutrino storm from the Core, was such that its superfluid properties had broken down.
The number and volume of hydrogen fusions here is so great that, at times, by accident, neutrons fuse into superheavy particle pairs, but which decay instantly back into simpler particles, releasing neutrinos and other weak particles back into the medium.
Electrons and positrons, neutrinos and antineutrinos, photons with billion-light-year wavelengths all swirled through the cosmos.
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, the Creighton Mine, Laurentian University, and York University all really exist.
Therefore, the Longline continued to emit its own neutrino bursts as it left the neutron star and when it made its reversal some three hundred thousand kilometers away.
A challenge to string theory is to provide a compelling explanation of present and future neutrino data, especially if experiments ultimately show that neutrinos do have a tiny but nonzero mass.
The image showed the expected rough oblong, some hundred meters wide-but the two-or three-meter-thick slab of the neutrino tomographs was revealed now as a delicate, convoluted surface-fine as a single layer of skin, but folded into an elaborate space filling curve.
And when a proton annihilates an antiproton, it produces a pi-zero meson one-third of the time, and a charged pion, a muon, and a neutrino two-thirds of the time, after which the pions and neutrons promptly break down to electrons and positrons, photons and neutrinos.
Although SNO had been built to study neutrinos from the sun, it could detect them from anywhere in the universe.
This should give you significant relief, because right now as you read this, billions of neutrinos ejected into space by the sun are passing through your body and the earth as well, as part of their lonely journey through the cosmos.
I have read about the possibility of setting up a modulated beam of neutrinos that could allow communication through the Earth instead of around it.
Neutrinos proved very difficult to find because they are ghostly particles that only rarely interact with other matter: an average-energy neutrino can easily pass right through many trillion miles of lead without the slightest effect on its motion.