muon neutrino

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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.

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