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How are neutrinos measured?

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What does a neutrinos do?

Neutrinos are elementary particles that travel close to the speed of light, lack an electric charge, are able to pass through ordinary matter almost undisturbed and are thus extremely difficult to detect. Neutrinos have a minuscule, but non-zero, mass that was too small to be measured as of 2007.


What is a solar neutrinos?

Solar neutrinos are electron neutrinos that are in the sun. The sun is what produces nuclear fusion.


Can neutrinos change into other types of neutrinos?

Yes; the scienific terminology for this phenomenon is "neutrino oscillation". Neutrinos exist in three different flavours - electron, muon and tao neutrinos, listed in order of increasing mass (each also has an antiparticle). Although it is not know why this is the case, it was originally discovered that neutrinos oscillate when examining the neutrinos emitted by the sun; although primarily electron neutrinos are emitted as a result of the fusion process within the sun, the quantities of the different flavours of neutrinos detected on Earth from the sun are in roughly equal proportions.


What is the dolar neutrino problem?

I presume you mean, "What WAS the Solar neutrino problem?"Our understanding of our Sun's core predicted a certain number of neutrinos would hit our Earth per second. Measurements of neutrinos from our Sun were substantially different from this number. The scientists who did the theories said the scientists doing the measurements were wrong; and vice versa -- an argument that went back and forth for forty years.We now know that neutrinos do decay, thus perfectly explaining the lack of neutrinos that are measured as coming from our Sun.The scientists who write the theories are busy trying to explain neutrino decay.


What are the uses of neutrino?

Neutrinos are similar to electrons, but are different, in that neutrinos do not carry electric charges.


What can affect growth?

what can effect your plant growth is the neutrinos. If you have a lot of neutrinos your plant can grow rapidly.


Explanation of missing solar neutrinos?

Neutrinos are incredibly hard to detect so the "absence" of neutrinos doesn't mean they are not there. It was long thought that neutrinos did not decay. We now know they do so. Thus, the lower than expected number of neutrinos detected coming from the Sun has been fully explained. It took four decades but the problem is now fully resolved.


What can affect plant growth?

what can effect your plant growth is the neutrinos. If you have a lot of neutrinos your plant can grow rapidly.


Are neutrinos mediated by electromagnetic interaction?

No, neutrinos are mediated by weak interactions, Photons are mediated by electromagnetic interactions.


What can penetrate the sun?

Neutrinos.


Astronomers are interested in solar neutrinos because neutrinos carry with them information about?

The nuclear reactions going on in the heart of the Sun.


Do neutrinos travel at the speed of light?

No, neutrinos have been shown to have a small non-zero mass. They can't get to c (the speed of light in a vacuum). The only thing a supernova can eject at the speed of light is photons. Update: Recently an experiment has measured neutrinos traveling above the speed of light. An explanation is yet to be offered.