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50 years of neutrinos
On December 4 1930, Wolfgang Pauli addressed an "open letter" to Lise Meitner and others attending a physics meeting, suggesting the neutrino as a way out of the difficulties confronted in beta rays research, especially by the existence of a continuous beta spectrum. He proposed a new part...
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author | Goldhaber, M |
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description | On December 4 1930, Wolfgang Pauli addressed an "open letter" to Lise Meitner and others attending a physics meeting, suggesting the neutrino as a way out of the difficulties confronted in beta rays research, especially by the existence of a continuous beta spectrum. He proposed a new particle later called the neutrino. The prehistory leading up to Pauli's letter will be reviewed, as well as the later discovery of the electron-neutrino followed by the muon-neutrino. There are now believed to be three different types of neutrino and their anti-particles. Neutrinos have a spin 1/2; but only one spin component has been found in nature: neutrinos go forward as "left-handed" screws and anti-neutrinos as "right-handed" ones. A question still not convincingly resolved today is wether neutrinos have a mass different from zero and, if they do, what consequences this would have for the behaviour of neutrinos and for cosmology. |
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spelling | cern-4221842022-11-02T22:29:24Zhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/422184engGoldhaber, M50 years of neutrinosGeneral Theoretical PhysicsOn December 4 1930, Wolfgang Pauli addressed an "open letter" to Lise Meitner and others attending a physics meeting, suggesting the neutrino as a way out of the difficulties confronted in beta rays research, especially by the existence of a continuous beta spectrum. He proposed a new particle later called the neutrino. The prehistory leading up to Pauli's letter will be reviewed, as well as the later discovery of the electron-neutrino followed by the muon-neutrino. There are now believed to be three different types of neutrino and their anti-particles. Neutrinos have a spin 1/2; but only one spin component has been found in nature: neutrinos go forward as "left-handed" screws and anti-neutrinos as "right-handed" ones. A question still not convincingly resolved today is wether neutrinos have a mass different from zero and, if they do, what consequences this would have for the behaviour of neutrinos and for cosmology.CERNoai:cds.cern.ch:4221841980 |
spellingShingle | General Theoretical Physics Goldhaber, M 50 years of neutrinos |
title | 50 years of neutrinos |
title_full | 50 years of neutrinos |
title_fullStr | 50 years of neutrinos |
title_full_unstemmed | 50 years of neutrinos |
title_short | 50 years of neutrinos |
title_sort | 50 years of neutrinos |
topic | General Theoretical Physics |
url | http://cds.cern.ch/record/422184 |
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