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(Reference: The Enigmatic Neutrino Don Lincoln, The Physics Teacher, September, 2015)

(radioactivity)

(Sir James Chadwick)

(tritium)

- (helium-3)

( H He + e )

(n p + e )

(beta decay)

Chadwick

(momentum)
(daughter particles)

Chadwick

E = mc2

(rest energy)

- (He-3)

(energy conservation)

He-3

(momentum conservation)

(nuclear processes)

(Wolfgang Pauli)

Pauli

)
Pauli

Pauli

Chadwick

Pauli

)
(

Pauli

Pauli

()

Enrico Fermi

Pauli

(neutrino)

Fermi

neu
Pauli

(To catch a neutrino)

Reactor)

(Savannah River Nuclear


Clyde Cowan

Frederick Reines

(detector)

(pulses of light)

(antineutrino)

13

10
1013/(cm2.s)

(flux)
Pauli

(
)

Cowan

Reines

(ghost

(Project Poltergeist)

Project Poltergeist

(cadmium chloride)
(liquid scintillators)

(photodetectors)
Reines
Pauli

Frederick Reines

(blips)

(Clyde Cowan

Cowan

(left-handers)

(reflection)

(spin)

(angular momentum)
p p

(Muon neutrinos)

Lederman, Melvin Schwartz

(Brookhaven Laboratory National Laboratory) Leon

Jack Steinberger

(flavor)

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John Bahcall
(solar neutrino)

7 x 1010 neutrinos/(cm2.s)
100

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