Leon Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger (1962)
Mass
Small but non-zero. See neutrino mass.
Electric charge
0 e
Color charge
No
Spin
1/2
Weak isospin
1/2
Weak hypercharge
−1
Chirality
left-handed (for right-handed neutrinos, see sterile neutrino)
The muon neutrino is an elementary particle which has the symbol ν μ and zero electric charge. Together with the muon it forms the second generation of leptons, hence the name muon neutrino. It was discovered in 1962 by Leon Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger. The discovery was rewarded with the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics.
The muonneutrino is an elementary particle which has the symbol ν μ and zero electric charge. Together with the muon it forms the second generation of...
an electron of the same charge as the muon and two types of neutrinos. Like all elementary particles, the muon has a corresponding antiparticle of opposite...
Weak interactions create neutrinos in one of three leptonic flavors: electron neutrino, ν e muonneutrino, ν μ tau neutrino, ν τ Each flavor is associated...
over a cubic kilometre. Similar to its predecessor, the Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA), IceCube consists of spherical optical sensors...
electron, muon, or tau) can later be measured to have a different lepton family number. The probability of measuring a particular flavor for a neutrino varies...
( e− ) and the electron neutrino ( ν e); the second are the muonic leptons, comprising the muon ( μ− ) and the muonneutrino ( ν μ); and the third are...
as the electron neutrino, while the second neutrino is identified as the muonneutrino. The electron neutrino has a corresponding antiparticle, the electron...
Cherenkov radiation emitted when an incoming neutrino creates an electron or muon in the water. The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory was similar, but used heavy...
years before the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012). Electron neutrinoMuonneutrino PMNS matrix Perl, M.L.; et al. (1975). "Evidence for anomalous lepton...
properties of neutrinos. According to the Standard Model of particle physics, there are three flavors of neutrinos: electron neutrinos, muonneutrinos, and tau...
The Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) is a neutrino telescope located beneath the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station. In 2005, after...
the first experiment which observed the appearance of electron neutrinos in a muonneutrino beam. It also provided the world best measurement of oscillation...
a selected charge: positive to produce the muonneutrino beam, negative to produce the muon anti-neutrino beam. Decay of the secondary particles in flight...
reconstruct the muon trajectories as well as the first to record atmospheric neutrinos underwater. AMANDA (Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array)...
instrument used in a scientific experiment for detecting tau neutrinos from muonneutrino oscillations. The experiment is a collaboration between CERN...
Sterile neutrinos (or inert neutrinos) are hypothetical particles (neutral leptons – neutrinos) that interact only via gravity and not via any of the other...
85 attoseconds (8.5×10−17 seconds). Charged pions most often decay into muons and muonneutrinos, while neutral pions generally decay into gamma rays. The exchange...
emerging mesons decayed in a 675 meter long decay tunnel into muonneutrinos (93%) and muon antineutrinos (6%). The travel time was determined by comparing...
and top; Six types of leptons: electron, electron neutrino, muon, muonneutrino, tau, tau neutrino; Twelve gauge bosons (force carriers): the photon of...
with Leon M. Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, for the discovery of the muonneutrino. Through his career as an experimental particle physicist, he held positions...
except neutrinos, are also Dirac fermions; that is, each known fermion has its own distinct antiparticle. It is not known whether the neutrino is a Dirac...
Muon capture is the capture of a negative muon by a proton, usually resulting in production of a neutron and a neutrino, and sometimes a gamma photon...
electron and the electron neutrino; L μ {\displaystyle L_{\mathrm {\mu } }} the muon number, for the muon and the muonneutrino; and L τ {\displaystyle...
of −1, called the electron ( e− ), the muon ( μ− ), and the tau ( τ− ); the other three leptons are neutrinos ( ν e, ν μ, ν τ), which are the only elementary...
Corridor. On-site experiments outside of the neutrino program include the SeaQuest fixed-target experiment and Muon g-2. Fermilab continues to participate in...
The neutrinos from subsequent decays of pions and kaons form the neutrino beam. Most of these are muonneutrinos, with a small electron neutrino contamination...
anti-muon. In the Charged kaon channel, evidence of the kaon is seen in its decay products, which are a predominantly an anti-muon and a muonneutrino. The...