Particle physics
Neutrino Oscillation
The quantum phenomenon in which a neutrino changes flavour — electron, muon, or tau — as it travels. Its discovery proved that neutrinos have a small mass, resolved the decades-old 'solar neutrino problem' of the Sun apparently producing too few, and was recognised with the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Highlights
- ›Neutrinos change flavour — proving they have mass
Related physics & astronomy
Across fundamental physics
Knowledge connections
- Associated withThe Neutrino
- Associated withThe Neutrino
- Associated withQuantum Superposition
- Associated withThe Sun
- Associated withNeutrino Astronomy
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