Timeline for Have there been more distinctive names suggested for neutrino mass states $\nu_1, \nu_2, \nu_3$?
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| Aug 7, 2019 at 22:54 | comment | added | user12262 | @Cosmas Zachos: "[...] Your names evoke flavors, though..." -- Bingo!. | |
| Aug 7, 2019 at 22:26 | comment | added | Cosmas Zachos | I recall there was a competition for such in the [Long-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Newsletter]( hep.anl.gov/ndk/longbnews), but I forget when. Your names evoke flavors, though... | |
| Aug 7, 2019 at 22:19 | comment | added | user12262 |
@Cosmas Zachos: "Do you have your own suitable names?" – Well: being put on the spot (and just back from vacation) I'd like to call those three: vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate.
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| Jul 22, 2019 at 13:58 | comment | added | Cosmas Zachos | Do you have your own suitable names? | |
| Jul 16, 2019 at 18:40 | answer | added | Cosmas Zachos | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 29, 2017 at 13:31 | comment | added | Cosmas Zachos | My point, exactly. I suspect they are waiting till they resolve the hierarchy. The present placeholder names, 1,2,3 are a perpetual source of confusion, as evinced in the comment question! | |
| Oct 23, 2013 at 19:40 | comment | added | user12262 | @rijul gupta: "Aren't neutrinos referred to as flavours now ?" -- As far as quarks and charged leptons are concerned, "flavor" is apparently synonymous to "mass state"; and they are denoted by the familiar names mentioned in the question. On the other hand, the widely used neutrino names $\nu_e, \nu_{\mu}, \nu_{\tau}$ are referring to mixing states, not to mass states. | |
| Oct 23, 2013 at 6:20 | comment | added | Rijul Gupta | Arent neutrinos referred to as flavours now ? | |
| Oct 22, 2013 at 21:38 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 22, 2013 at 21:12 | history | asked | user12262 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |