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Three different types of neutrinos are recognized.
The latest work on the subject suggests that the combined mass
of one of each type adds up to less than one billionth of an AMU.
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What is the tiniest object on Earth?
Likely a sub-atomic particles, such as a neutrino.
Exactly how do scientist know that supernovae's have existed?
Because they have been observed with the naked eye, optical telescopes, radio telescopes and neutrino detectors.Look at a piece of gold, and you are looking at the result of a supernova explosion.
What does the core of the sun do?
The innermost layer of the sun is the core. With a density of 160 g/cm^3, 10 times that of lead, the core might be expected to be solid. However, the core's temperature of 15 million kelvins (27 million degrees Fahrenheit) keeps it in a gaseous state. In the core, fusion reactions produce energy in the form of gamma rays and neutrinos. Gamma rays are photons with high energy and high frequency. The gamma rays are absorbed and re-emitted by many atoms on their journey from the envelope to the outside of the sun. When the gamma rays leave atoms, their average energy is reduced. However, the first law of thermodynamics (which states that energy can neither be created nor be destroyed) plays a role and the number of photons increases. Each high-energy gamma ray that leaves the solar envelope will eventually become a thousand low-energy photons. The neutrinos are extremely nonreactive. To stop a typical neutrino, one would have to send it through a light-year of lead! Several experiments are being performed to measure the neutrino output from the sun. Chemicals containing elements with which neutrinos react are put in large pools in mines, and the neutrinos' passage through the pools can be measured by the rare changes they cause in the nuclei in the pools. For example, perchloroethane contains some isotopes of chlorine with 37 particles in the nucleus (17 protons, 20 neutrons). These Cl-37 molecules can take in neutrinos and become radioactive Ar-37 (18 protons, 19 neutrons). From the amount of argon present, the number of neutrinos can be calculated.
What does hydrogen helium make?
Hydrogen and Helium are the first two in the table of elements. Both have several isotopes, but only one stable one each. In our Sun (and most other stars) the fusion of Hydrogen to Helium is the process that gives us our light and heat.
What happens in the sun?
The question is a little broad to answer directly. I assume you want to know how the Sun gets to shine. This is due nuclear fusion being performed in the Sun's core. The pressure and temperature in said core are immense and high enough for hydrogen ions to fuse together to form helium. This process generates a large amount of energy (in the form of light and neutrinos) which heats up the Sun. The Sun finally shines because it is hot. Radiation coming from the core does not immediately reach the surface, that takes a lot of time. Instead what we see is the thermal radiation coming from the hot surface. Knowledge of these processes has been acquired from a number of ways; direct observations using telescopes (both in the optical and other spectra of light) and more recently neutrino observations. One can look for many things; emission and absorption spectra, sun spots, differential rotation etc. Also used are advances in the fields of nuclear and particle physics.
What is an antielectron neutrino?
An antielectron neutrino is an antileptonic elementary particle - the antiparticle of an electron neutrino.
What is an antimuon neutrino?
An antimuon neutrino is an antileptonic elementary particle which is the antiparticle of a muon neutrino.
When was Muon neutrino created?
Muon neutrino was created in 1962.
When was Tau neutrino created?
Tau neutrino was created in 2000.
When was Electron neutrino created?
Electron neutrino was created in 1956.
What are the three particles in the lepton family?
They aren't 3 they are in fact 12 if you count anti matter as a separate particle from matter. Electron, muon, tau, electron neutrino, muon neutrino and tau neutrino. The same apply to anti matter positron, anti muon, anti tau, postrin neutrino, anti muon neutrino, and anti tau neutrino.
When did Poppa Neutrino die?
Poppa Neutrino died on 2011-01-23.
When was Poppa Neutrino born?
Poppa Neutrino was born on 1933-10-15.
When was Baksan Neutrino Observatory created?
Baksan Neutrino Observatory was created in 1977.
When was Little Neutrino created?
Little Neutrino was created on 1974-10-18.
What level does Neutrino evolve at in Yellow Pokemon?
Neutrino was not an official pokemon at the time of Pokemon Yellow. There is still no official pokemon species named "neutrino".
When where the neutrino experiment done?
Many, many neutrino experiments are always in progress around the world.
