Neutrinos are light, uncharged leptons. The neutrino tag should be applied to question relating to neutrino properties or interactions involving neutrinos.
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Do small-angle coherent scattering experiments really see coherent effects over arbitrarily large distances?
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After integrating over all possible outgoing angles, the total cross-section of coherent elastic scattering from a fixed target of characteristic length $L$ scales like $L^4$. Does ...
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What is the mass of a neutrino [duplicate]
Our prof. Says its massless. If so wouldn't it make it travel in the same speed of light.SR states that this is impossible.
Is mass hierarchy normal or inverted?
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Why aren't there more than three generations of the leptons and quarks? [duplicate]
There are three generations of electrons, neutrinos, and quarks. The second and third generations of electrons and quarks are unstable and decay into lighter particles.
Why are there exactly three ...
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Neutrino mass with Dirac and Majorana
Why both Dirac mass and Majorana mass terms are needed to explain the mass of a neutrino?
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Does the Special Theory of Relativity “form” the foundation of Modern Physics?
Does the Special Theory of Relativity "form" the foundation of Modern Physics?
My question is in reference to Geoff Brumfiel's Scientific American article "Particles Found to Travel Faster than Speed ...
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How do we know Dark Matter isn't simply Neutrinos?
What evidence is there that dark matter isn't one of the known types of neutrinos?
If it were, how would this be measurable?
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Neutrinos and Speed of light
Einstein's Special Theory of relativity postulates that the speed of light is same for all frames.
Suppose a neutrino is there moving at the speed of light. Then will that neutrino also be flowing ...
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Neutrinos vs. Photons: Who wins the race across the galaxy?
Inspired by the wording of this answer, a thought occurred to me. If a photon and a neutrino were to race along a significant stretch of our actual galaxy, which would win the race?
Now, neutrinos ...
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How can neutrinos “beat light”?
Article in the CERN newsletter "symmetry breaking" has the following statement:
"Neutrinos are often the first particles to bring news of events in space to Earth, beating even light.". What does this ...
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Mechanisms of mass generation for Dirac neutrinos
If neutrinos are Majorana particles, one way of explaining their small masses is the seesaw mechanism.
Now say I'd like my neutrinos to be Dirac, for symmetry to the quark sector. What mechanisms ...
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Where do high-energy neutrinos come from?
Last week the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory published a press release reporting the possible discovery of two neutrinos with energies of over 1 PeV.
Would anyone here be willing to help me ...
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About the seesaw mechanism
I was reading about the seesaw mechanism in my Lecture notes and got a technical question. See for example
http://www.lhep.unibe.ch/img/lectureslides/9_2007-11-30_SeeSawMechanism.pdf
page 13.
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Effective amplitude in Neutrinoless double beta decay
Can someone give me the value of the effective amplitude($A$) of $\bar{\nu_\mu}\rightarrow\nu_\mu$ oscillation of Neutrinoless double beta decay? The expression is like this:
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Do neutrinos of any flavor get trapped in black holes?
This question has been bothering me a bit. I know that neutrinos have super small mass and they interact via the weak force. Since they have a non-zero mass, they should be affected by black holes and ...
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How to get from angular velocity to acquired phase for neutrino oscillations in matter?
I am reading Akhmedovs 2000 paper on parametric resonance, and I cannot figure out the math of this particular passage:
The difference of the neutrino eigenenergies in a matter of density $N_i$ is ...
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Can the speed of an electromagnetic wave be measured in the absence of neutrinos?
Let me explain better: from what I understand neutrinos are so pervasive they are literally everywhere. And since they have such a tiny electric charge they barely interact with anything and cannot be ...
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strange modulation of radiactive decay rates with solar activity
Recently i found out this uber strange article about nuclear decay rates being somehow showing seasonal variations with a high correlation with sun activity. Two very precise questions:
1) has this ...
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How much energy is carried away by neutrinos in matter-antimatter annihilation?
Some people say that neutrinos carry away most of the energy, some others say just a fraction. So what is the truth ? what is the percentage of energy lost due to neutrinos ?
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Are right handed neutrinos actually antineutrinos and vice versa?
Is it experimentally ruled out that right-handed neutrinos are actually antineutrinos, and left-handed antineutrinos are neutrinos ?
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Models of neutrinos consistent with OPERA's results
I guess by now most people have heard about the new paper (arXiv:1109.4897) by the OPERA collaboration which claims to have observed superluminal neutrinos with 6$\sigma$ significance. Obviously this ...
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If neutrinos travel faster than light, how much lead time would we have over detecting supernovas?
In light of the recent story that neutrinos travel faster than photons, I realize the news about this is sensationalistic and many tests still remain, but let's ASSUME neutrinos are eventually proven ...
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Question on “new CNGS/OPERA measurement of neutrino velocity” (hep-ex/1212.1276)
A "new measurement of the limit on muon neutrino velocity with respect to the speed of light " by the OPERA neutrino experiment in collaboration with CERN has become public recently, as preprint ...
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How neutrinos can be harmful?
What are the circumstances in which neutrinos can harm humans or even kill them.?
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What is difference between the different 'flavours' of neutrinos?
Moreover, how-come scientist know that muon-neutrino are different from electron-neutrino when they didn't even know what the difference was? Did they interact differently with other particles?
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Neutrino versus Anti-neutrino Detection
Is there a that detection method in use that can distinguish between a neutrino from its anti-neutrino?
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“Conceptualizing” neutrinos
Layman here. EE and BS physics. I am "content" in viewing photons/electromagnetic radiation as an "emergent" property of spacetime? due to the electrons ("particles..?") and all their activity jumping ...
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How 'Faster Than Light' Neutrino Was Product of Loose Cable at CERN?
A "faster than light" neutrino discovery was actually the result of a loose cable.
A fiber-optic cable in a GPS receiver at the European Center for Particle Physics ( CERN) near Geneva
Can someone ...
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Why do or don't neutrinos have antiparticles?
This was inspired by this question. According to Wikipedia, a Majorana neutrino must be its own antiparticle, while a Dirac neutrino cannot be its own antiparticle. Why is this true?
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Is it proven that all “solar” neutrinos are coming from the Sun direction?
In "Observation of 8B solar neutrinos in the Kamiokande-II detector" (Phys.Rev.Lett., 63, 16(1989), http://prl.aps.org/pdf/PRL/v63/i1/p16_1) the Figure 2 shows that only small percentage of registered ...
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What would be the effects on theoretical physics if neutrinos go faster than light?
Earlier today, I saw this link on Facebook about neutrinos going faster than the speed of light, and of course, re-posted. Since then, a couple of my friends have gotten into a discussion about what ...
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Does a coronal mass ejection change solar neutrino emission rates?
Does the CME and neutrinos have any relation? CME is measured by Corona graphs.. How do they measure neutrinos coming from the sun? Does any of these have effects on earth's magnetic field or ...
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Why is neutrino beam not considered light?
I am trying to understand why physicists consider a neutrino beam not to be light.
Here's the research that I did to find the answer:
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The transit of Venus and solar neutrino rates
The following question was posed at the end of Maury Goodman's June 2012 long-baseline neutrino newsletter.
During the Venus transit of the sun, were more solar neutrinos
absorbed in Venus, or ...
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Can neutrino detectors tell what direction the neutrinos came from?
I was reading this question and got to thinking. Can neutrino detectors give us any clue where the neutrinos came from or when a supernova may occur? I was unsure and decided to ask that here.
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Neutron decay and electron anti neutrino $n\to p + e + \bar{\nu}_e$
Why do we need neutrino to explain neutron decay?
Is there any evidence regarding existence neutrinos in the context of
$n\to p + e + \bar{\nu}_e$?
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Can neutrinos be the dark matter [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do we know Dark Matter isn't simply Neutrinos?
If there are primardian neutrinos and since they have some mass however low, could neutrinos form the dark matter ...
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Neutrinos and the Cosmic Speed Limit [duplicate]
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Superluminal neutrinos
An article in the newspaper a few months ago said that Neutrinos travel faster than Light. Another article then said that this observation was ...
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When a high speed neutrino just misses an old neutron star, why isn't it trapped?
Suppose a neutrino is seen travelling so fast that its Lorentz gamma factor is 100,000. It races past an old, no longer active neutron star, narrowly missing it. As far as the neutrino is concerned, ...
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Neutrino Oscillations and Conservation of Momentum
I would like to better understand how neutrino oscillations are consistent with conservation of momentum because I'm encountering some conceptual difficulties when thinking about it. I do have a ...
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How can neutrinos oscillate though the lepton flavors have differing masses?
Since the total mass-energy for the neutrino presumably does not change when a neutrino changes lepton flavor, though the mass is different, what compensates for the gain or loss of mass? Does the ...
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Neutrino path bent by gravity? [duplicate]
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Neutrino unaffected by gravity
Other probably closely related questions here:
Link Neutrinos unaffected by gravity
Link Superluminal Neutrinos
My question is subtly ...
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Neutrino Oscillation and their gravitational implications
As I understand neutrinos, there are three different flavors, all with different masses. Although the masses of these neutrinos have not been directly measured, their mass differences have been. ...
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When Physicists thought neutrinos were faster than the speed of light [duplicate]
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Superluminal neutrinos
I remember not too long ago hearing very much speculation about a discovery that perhaps neutrinos are faster than the speed of light.
I've heard ...
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Are neutrinos affected by gravity?
Layman here, but EE and BS physics. I know that light is affected by gravity. But are neutrinos? During the collapse of a star into a neutron star, as the electrons join protons to form neutrons ...
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How to calculate the density of relic neutrinos?
May be not neutrinos, but antineutrinos? Or both types?
In the last case, why they didn't annihilate and what is the ratio of relic neutrinos to relic antineutrinos? Is that ratio somehow related to ...
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Neutrino beam energy
Neutrino is one of the most mysterious particles in todays physics. Even when values of some parameters like for example mass associated with it are not known (or there is great range of possible ...
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What do “tachionic” neutrinos mean for QG?
Reading about the spectacular Opera claim, I`m (again ;-P) wondering if a confirmation of superliminous neutrinos could help settle some still open quantum gravity issues ...?
In this post, Lumo ...
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Units describing the behavior of neutrinos
http://proj-cngs.web.cern.ch/proj-cngs/Download/CNGSDGVE/cngsdgve.pdf
on page 13 I read that "the present plan is to provide nu_mu neutrinos with an energy between 5 and 30 GeV."
Wikipedia neutrino ...
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OPERA' s chief resigns [closed]
It was said that the chief of the experiment (that proposedly demonstrated faster than light behavior) resigned after a vote. What good justification could there be for voting him out of his position? ...
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Superluminal neutrinos
I was quite surprised to read this all over the news today:
Elusive, nearly massive subatomic particles called neutrinos appear to travel just faster than light, a team of physicists in Europe ...
