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A photon is a unit of light and has a mass of 0 where is a Neutrino has a small but nonzero mass. Neutrino's are similar to electrons in most regards, except neutrino's have no charge. Where photon's travel at the speed of light neutrino's come close but do not.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 13y agoAt the moment, the only difference is their helicity (spin projected onto momentum). Neutrino's spin is directed opposite momentum while an antineutrino's is pointed the same way. This may be proven wrong, however, which would lead them to be their own antiparticles.
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Is there any particles whose velocity is greater than photon particles?
Possibly neutrinos are . . . scientists right now are thinking that neutrinos travel faster than light (photons)
What is a solar neutrinos?
Solar neutrinos are electron neutrinos that are in the sun. The sun is what produces nuclear fusion.
Are neutrinos mediated by electromagnetic interaction?
No, neutrinos are mediated by weak interactions, Photons are mediated by electromagnetic interactions.
How do pions decay into muons?
Negatively charged pions decay into muons and muon anti-neutrinos via the weak nuclear interaction. The probability of such a decay occurring is approximately 99.98%. Muons can also decay into electrons and electron anti-neutrinos, but the probability of such a thing occurring is only about 0.012% Positively charged mouns decay into anti-muons and muon neutrinos instead. Neutral pions decay into either two photons or a photon and one electron and one positron. One decay of a negatively charged pion produces one muon and one muon anti-neutrino.
What part of the Sun do neutrinos originate?
The core.
Is there any particles whose velocity is greater than photon particles?
Possibly neutrinos are . . . scientists right now are thinking that neutrinos travel faster than light (photons)
How does a photon differ from a material particle?
A photon is a discrete particle (having zero mass, zero charge, and an indefinate life span explainable only by quantum physics) and can travel at the speed of light; a "material particle" can only travel at speeds lower than the speed of light.
Does a photon differ from its inertial particle?
It isn't clear what you mean by "its" inertial particle. There is no inertial particle associated with the photon.
What is faster than a neutrino?
A photon. Neutrinos have mass and therefore must travel at less than the speed of light. Photons of light travel at the speed of light.
How do waves in the electromagnetic spectrum differ?
They differ:* By their frequency * By their wavelength, which is inversely proportional to their frequency * By the energy per photon, which is proportional to the frequency
How photon differ from an inertial particle?
In a vacuum, a photon can ONLY move at the speed of light. A regular particle can ONLY move at speeds less than the speed of light.
What is a solar neutrinos?
Solar neutrinos are electron neutrinos that are in the sun. The sun is what produces nuclear fusion.
How does the various kinds of EM waves differ from each other?
They differ in frequency. (That's exactly the same thing as saying that they differ in wavelength, since frequency and wavelength are firmly connected.) (That's also the same thing as saying that they differ in the quantity of energy carried by each photon, since the amount of energy carried by each photon is firmly connected to frequency.)
Can neutrinos change into other types of neutrinos?
Yes; the scienific terminology for this phenomenon is "neutrino oscillation". Neutrinos exist in three different flavours - electron, muon and tao neutrinos, listed in order of increasing mass (each also has an antiparticle). Although it is not know why this is the case, it was originally discovered that neutrinos oscillate when examining the neutrinos emitted by the sun; although primarily electron neutrinos are emitted as a result of the fusion process within the sun, the quantities of the different flavours of neutrinos detected on Earth from the sun are in roughly equal proportions.
What are the uses of neutrino?
Neutrinos are similar to electrons, but are different, in that neutrinos do not carry electric charges.
What can affect growth?
what can effect your plant growth is the neutrinos. If you have a lot of neutrinos your plant can grow rapidly.
Explanation of missing solar neutrinos?
Neutrinos are incredibly hard to detect so the "absence" of neutrinos doesn't mean they are not there. It was long thought that neutrinos did not decay. We now know they do so. Thus, the lower than expected number of neutrinos detected coming from the Sun has been fully explained. It took four decades but the problem is now fully resolved.
