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Grade 109 grade science

what are neutrinos?

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11 Years agoGrade 10
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ApprovedApproved Tutor Answer11 Years ago
Neutrinos are subatomic particles produced by the decay of radioactive elements and are elementary particles that lack an electric charge.

Of all high-energy particles, only weakly interacting neutrinos can directly convey astronomical information from the edge of the universe - and from deep inside the most cataclysmic high-energy processes and as far as we know, there are three different types of neutrinos, each type relating to a charged particle as shown in the following table:

Neutrino ve vµ vτ
Charged Partner electron (e) muon (µ) tau (τ)