muon neutrino
- noun
- /ˈmjuːɒn nuːˈtriːnoʊ/
- Specialized
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neutrino muónico
- In these studies, a beam of muon neutrinos crosses a 30-foot tank of mineral oil.
- muon neutrino oscillation
Examples
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By analyzing the spatial geometry and energy of the light flashes, physicists can differentiate between electron neutrino and muon neutrino hits.
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Suppose DELTAm 2 is something like 0.01 eV² for oscillation between muon neutrinos and some other neutrino variety.
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So, over the entire energy range, half the muon neutrinos coming up through the Earth are lost by metamorphosis because for them the path length is always much larger.
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On the other hand, a muon neutrino produced in the atmosphere halfway round the world would traverse many oscillation lengths on its way to the detector.
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So atmospheric muon neutrinos from directly above would have very little opportunity to change flavor, and the detector would see the Robs = 2 we expect in the absence of any oscillation.
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This fitting assumes that muon neutrinos are oscillating with tau neutrinos or some sterile species the detector cannot see.
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What Super Kamiokande appears now to have confirmed is that a significant fraction of the muon neutrinos produced in atmospheric cosmic-ray showers are rendered invisible to the detector by just this sort of flavor oscillation.
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Several experiments suggest there's a shortfall of muon neutrinos compared with the number predicted by theory.
Synonyms
A tiny particle like a muon but without electric charge that rarely interacts with matter
Surface Forms
Morphology
If a learner already knows 'muon' (a particle similar to an electron) and 'neutrino' (a tiny particle that rarely interacts), they can straightforwardly infer that a 'muon neutrino' is the neutrino type associated with the muon. This is a compositional, domain-specific naming pattern common in science and cross-linguistically consistent, so the meaning is directly derivable from the parts.
Etymology
Muon neutrino The name muon neutrino joins muon and neutrino, where neutrino comes from Italian for 'little neutral one' and muon is the name of a heavier cousin of the electron. So the phrase means 'the tiny neutral particle that is linked to the muon'.
