: the antiparticle of the neutrino
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Thanks to that approach, JUNO should be able to measure differences in the masses of antineutrinos about 10 times better than previous equipment.
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Eric Baculinao, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
Neutrinos pair with antineutrinos, which scientists think mirror their behavior.
—Eric Baculinao, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
Sitting still, a muon decays into an electron, a neutrino, and an antineutrino in 2.2 microseconds.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
But the specific oscillation here, electron antineutrino to sterile neutrino, should take place quickly.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2023
Also present in this pool of particles were neutrinos, which are very tiny, weakly interacting particles, and antineutrinos, their antimatter counterparts.
—Anne-Katherine Burns, The Conversation, 26 July 2023
The light in each beat reveals two things: The first flash indicates the energy of the antineutrino; the second confirms that the particle was an antineutrino.
—Dolly Setton, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2014
Beta decays occur within atomic nuclei, when down quarks transform into up quarks, or vice versa, allowing a neutron to become a proton, or the reverse, by emitting an electron and an antineutrino, or a positron (the antimatter counterpart of the electron) and a neutrino.
—Andreas Crivellin, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2022
Electron scattering experiments measure where an electron touches a quark’s charge, and neutrino experiments measure where an antineutrino changes a quark’s flavor.
—Anashe Bandari, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2023
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Eric Baculinao, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
Neutrinos pair with antineutrinos, which scientists think mirror their behavior.
—Eric Baculinao, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
Sitting still, a muon decays into an electron, a neutrino, and an antineutrino in 2.2 microseconds.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
But the specific oscillation here, electron antineutrino to sterile neutrino, should take place quickly.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2023
Also present in this pool of particles were neutrinos, which are very tiny, weakly interacting particles, and antineutrinos, their antimatter counterparts.
—Anne-Katherine Burns, The Conversation, 26 July 2023
The light in each beat reveals two things: The first flash indicates the energy of the antineutrino; the second confirms that the particle was an antineutrino.
—Dolly Setton, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2014
Beta decays occur within atomic nuclei, when down quarks transform into up quarks, or vice versa, allowing a neutron to become a proton, or the reverse, by emitting an electron and an antineutrino, or a positron (the antimatter counterpart of the electron) and a neutrino.
—Andreas Crivellin, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2022
Electron scattering experiments measure where an electron touches a quark’s charge, and neutrino experiments measure where an antineutrino changes a quark’s flavor.
—Anashe Bandari, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2023
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“Antineutrino.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/antineutrino. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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