neutrino Comparison Table

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neutrino comparison table

Subject is not accelerated by is a kind of has quantum behavior has spin obey has mass has definition has charge has antiparticle

lepton elementary particle Fermi-Dirac statistics 1/2 exclusion principle Elementary particle like the electron and neutrino that do not experience the strong nuclear force. Unlike the strongly interacting hadrons, the leptons have small masses.

massless particle particle uncertainty principle 0 A particle with zero mass

neutral particle electric or magnetic fields particle uncertainty principle A particle with zero charge 0

neutrino electric or magnetic fields massless particle Fermi-Dirac statistics 1/2 uncertainty principle 0 A stable particle with no charge, a rest mass of zero, and a spin of 1/2, that carries away energy in the course of nuclear reactions. Its main characteristic is the weakness of its interactions with all other particles. Since the wavelengths of neutrinos at the energies at which they are normally emitted from unstable nuclei are only a few thousandths of an angstrom (compared with the wavelength of a light photon which is several thousand angstroms), they have negligible probability (10^-19 that of a light photon) of interacting with matter and escape at the speed of light. Neutrinos arise only in the energy-producing regions of stars and therefore, unlike light photons, provide direct evidence of conditions in stellar cores. There are two types of neutrinos, those associated with electrons (v_e) and those associated with muons (v_µ). 0 antineutrino

Subject	is not accelerated by	is a kind of	has quantum behavior	has spin	obey	has mass	has definition	has charge	has antiparticle
lepton		elementary particle	Fermi-Dirac statistics	1/2	exclusion principle		Elementary particle like the electron and neutrino that do not experience the strong nuclear force. Unlike the strongly interacting hadrons, the leptons have small masses.
massless particle		particle			uncertainty principle	0	A particle with zero mass
neutral particle	electric or magnetic fields	particle			uncertainty principle		A particle with zero charge	0
neutrino	electric or magnetic fields	massless particle	Fermi-Dirac statistics	1/2	uncertainty principle	0	A stable particle with no charge, a rest mass of zero, and a spin of 1/2, that carries away energy in the course of nuclear reactions. Its main characteristic is the weakness of its interactions with all other particles. Since the wavelengths of neutrinos at the energies at which they are normally emitted from unstable nuclei are only a few thousandths of an angstrom (compared with the wavelength of a light photon which is several thousand angstroms), they have negligible probability (10^-19 that of a light photon) of interacting with matter and escape at the speed of light. Neutrinos arise only in the energy-producing regions of stars and therefore, unlike light photons, provide direct evidence of conditions in stellar cores. There are two types of neutrinos, those associated with electrons (v_e) and those associated with muons (v_µ).	0	antineutrino

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