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  • noun The antiparticle of a neutrino.

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  • noun The antiparticle of a neutrino. Each type of neutrino has a corresponding antineutrino.

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  • noun physics the antiparticle of the neutrino

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  • noun the antiparticle of a neutrino

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anti- +‎ neutrino

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Examples

  • This is the force responsible for nuclear beta decay, which, for example, permits a neutron to decay into a proton, electron, and a third particle -- the neutrino which without extremely carefully designed experiments leaves no observable signatures of its own strictly speaking, it is the neutrino's antiparticle known as the antineutrino.

    Lisa Randall: CERN or Einstein? Interpreting the Findings Lisa Randall 2011

  • This is the force responsible for nuclear beta decay, which, for example, permits a neutron to decay into a proton, electron, and a third particle -- the neutrino which without extremely carefully designed experiments leaves no observable signatures of its own strictly speaking, it is the neutrino's antiparticle known as the antineutrino.

    Lisa Randall: CERN or Einstein? Interpreting the Findings Lisa Randall 2011

  • For example, a positively charged pion decaying to a positively charged muon and a muon neutrino is the mirror process of a negatively charged pion decaying to a negatively charged muon and a muon antineutrino.

    A Non-Technical Explanation of Flavo(u)r Physics « Imaginary Potential 2008

  • The key reaction would be proton plus electron goes to neutrino plus antineutrino.

    December 24th, 2007 amuchmoreexotic 2007

  • The key reaction would be proton plus electron goes to neutrino plus antineutrino.

    amuchmoreexotic: Merry Christmas everybody! I'm too depre amuchmoreexotic 2007

  • The process also results an an electron and an antineutrino.

    British Blogs 2008

  • There are three types, or “flavours”, of neutrinos: electron neutrinos, muon neutrinos and tau neutrinos; each type also has an antimatter partner, called an antineutrino.

    Please Tell Me What “God” Means Sean 2007

  • I eventually set a limit on the neutrino flux that was a factor of 20 below the antineutrino flux measured by Reines and Cowan in their elegant experiment that won Fred Reines his Nobel

    Raymond Davis Jr. - Autobiography 2003

  • Pauli, which came to be called the neutrino (really the antineutrino).

    Forces 2001

  • The reaction to be studied was antineutrino + proton - neutron + positron.

    Press Release: The 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics 1995

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