How to Use neutrino in a Sentence
neutrino
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The third flavor of neutrino, the tau neutrino, is the chameleon of the trio.
—Doug Cowen, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2024
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The Tevatron discovered the top quark, the Bc meson, and the tau neutrino.
—Daniel Holz, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2011
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Results over the past two years show that the capture rate is less than 0.2 neutrino per day.
—Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 14 May 2022
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Yet a sterile neutrino would be the ghostliest of them all.
—William Charles Louis, Scientific American, 1 July 2020
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The neutrino is nearly massless and flies through space at almost the speed of light.
—Mark Bowen, Scientific American, 12 July 2018
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So the signature of the collision is a muon, a neutrino, and four jets.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 July 2019
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Scientists caught one of those neutrinos in the ice cube and were able to trace it back to a special type of galaxy called a blazar.
—Brian Resnick, Vox, 18 Dec. 2018
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One of the reasons for the excitement over the new detector is that neutrinos are hard to detect, James said.
—Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 26 July 2017
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Maybe neutrinos get their mass through some other trick.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 11 June 2024
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Our bodies are hit with trillions of neutrinos by the second.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
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But every once in a while, a neutrino will hit into an atom of that ice, and breaks it apart, there’s a momentary flash of an eerie blue light.
—Brian Resnick, Vox, 12 July 2018
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The sensors look for streaks of light made by particles called muons, which are created when neutrinos hit the ice.
—Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2019
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The electron exchanges a W boson with one of the quarks, converting into an electron neutrino in the process.
—Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2010
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But the MiniBooNE sterile neutrino lacks the heft for these purposes.
—Natalie Wolchover, Washington Post, 18 June 2018
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But in 1956, in an experiment not unlike LSND, there the neutrino was.
—Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2021
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The blue line shows the reconstructed track of the muon, and the red arrow denotes the energy of the undetected muon neutrino.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
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The recoil from beta emissions is not yet observable because the mass of an electron and a neutrino are so small.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
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About a trillion neutrinos pass through our bodies every second and keep going unimpeded through the earth and the rest of the galaxy.
—Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
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When a neutrino is absorbed by an atom of chlorine, an atom of the radioactive isotope argon 37 is formed.
—Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 14 May 2022
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Axions were expected to be on the lighter side and could potentially be as light as the near-massless neutrino.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 21 Apr. 2023
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Even more exciting was such neutrinos had never before been traced to its source.
—Smithsonian, 12 July 2018
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One oddity is a long-standing excess in one type of neutrino, first described by researchers from Los Alamos back in the 1990s.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 June 2018
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The existence of a sterile neutrino would revolutionize physics from the smallest to the largest scales.
—Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2018
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There are three types of antineutrino just as there are three types of regular neutrino—electron, muon, and tau.
—Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2016
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Beneath the ice are photodetectors that pick up the neutrino signals.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 June 2023
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This neutrino was about 300 million times more energetic than those emitted by the sun.
—Michelle Hampson, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2018
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Along the axis, a high-energy jet of particles sent photons and neutrinos racing in our direction at or near the speed of light.
—Smithsonian, 12 July 2018
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If more neutrinos were present, then our models show more protons and fewer neutrons would exist as a result.
—Anne-Katherine Burns, The Conversation, 26 July 2023
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They're known for traveling at near lightspeeds and being nearly massless, but a new study has shown the masslessness of the most massless neutrino.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2019
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The study of the universe’s empty spaces could offer important clues to help solve the mysteries of dark matter, dark energy and the nature of neutrino particles.
—Michael D. Lemonick, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
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