the muon, and the three neutrinos, the tau is a lepton, and like all elementary particles with half-integer spin, the tau has a corresponding antiparticle...

Weak interactions create neutrinos in one of three leptonic flavors: electron neutrino, ν e muon neutrino, ν μ tau neutrino, ν τ Each flavor is associated...

comprising the tau ( τ− ) and the tau neutrino ( ν τ). Electrons have the least mass of all the charged leptons. The heavier muons and taus will rapidly...

measurement of atmospheric neutrino oscillation (both tau neutrino appearance and muon neutrino disappearance), and searching for WIMP annihilation in...

muon, or tau) can later be measured to have a different lepton family number. The probability of measuring a particular flavor for a neutrino varies between...

quantities. Pauli means what was later named "neutrino". See § Name, above. PMNS matrix Muon neutrino Tau neutrino "The Reines-Cowan Experiments: Detecting...

of neutrinos. According to the Standard Model of particle physics, there are three flavors of neutrinos: electron neutrinos, muon neutrinos, and tau neutrinos...

Sterile neutrinos (or inert neutrinos) are hypothetical particles (neutral leptons – neutrinos) that interact only via gravity and not via any of the other...

because neutrino energies were below the threshold of muon or tau production. The SN 1987A neutrino data, although sparse, confirmed the salient features of...

electron neutrinos and yielded little to no information on muon neutrinos and tau neutrinos. In 1984, Herb Chen of the University of California at Irvine...