muon neutrino

muon neutrino

See also: muonneutrino

English

Alternative forms

• muon-neutrino

Noun

muon neutrino (plural muon neutrinos)

1. A leptonic elementary particle having about half the mass of an electron and no charge.
   • 2012, ‘Back to the future’, The Economist, 8 Jun 2012:

     Here, OPERA's scientists told their colleagues in Kyoto that they have spotted a so-called muon-neutrino (of the sort whipped up at CERN) turn into another, tau-flavoured one.

Translations

elementary particle

Dutch: muonneutrino n Finnish: myoni-neutriino

Icelandic: fiseind mýeindar f Swedish: myonneutrino c