How to Use neutrino in a Sentence

neutrino

noun

• The third flavor of neutrino, the tau neutrino, is the chameleon of the trio.
  — Doug Cowen, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2024
• The Tevatron discovered the top quark, the Bc meson, and the tau neutrino.
  — Daniel Holz, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2011
• 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
• Yet a sterile neutrino would be the ghostliest of them all.
  — William Charles Louis, Scientific American, 1 July 2020
• The neutrino is nearly massless and flies through space at almost the speed of light.
  — Mark Bowen, Scientific American, 12 July 2018
• So the signature of the collision is a muon, a neutrino, and four jets.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 July 2019
• 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
• 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
• Maybe neutrinos get their mass through some other trick.
  — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 11 June 2024
• Our bodies are hit with trillions of neutrinos by the second.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
• 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
• 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
• Once the home of the world’s biggest atom smasher, Fermilab boasts the discoveries of the massive top and bottom quarks and the tau neutrino.
  — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 14 Aug. 2024
• 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
• But the MiniBooNE sterile neutrino lacks the heft for these purposes.
  — Natalie Wolchover, Washington Post, 18 June 2018
• But in 1956, in an experiment not unlike LSND, there the neutrino was.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2021
• 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
• Progress will likely not be stymied by neutrinos until after 10 to 15 years.
  — Saima S. Iqbal, Scientific American, 8 Aug. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• That technique doesn’t work for a W, which decays into a muon and an undetectable neutrino.
  — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 20 Sep. 2024
• Even more exciting was such neutrinos had never before been traced to its source.
  — Smithsonian, 12 July 2018
• 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
• The existence of a sterile neutrino would revolutionize physics from the smallest to the largest scales.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2018
• 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
• Beneath the ice are photodetectors that pick up the neutrino signals.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 June 2023
• This neutrino was about 300 million times more energetic than those emitted by the sun.
  — Michelle Hampson, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2018
• 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

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024