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 June 8, “Back to the future”, in The Economist:

     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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: μ中微子 (miùzhōngwēizǐ)

• Dutch: muonneutrino n
• Finnish: myoni-neutriino
• Icelandic: fiseind mýeindar f
• Swedish: myonneutrino c