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Scientific paper
Jun 1980
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980newsc..86..308s&link_type=abstract
New Scientist, vol. 86, June 19, 1980, p. 308-310.
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Cosmic Rays, Neutrinos, Particle Mass, Universe, Electron Mass, Elementary Particle Interactions, Energy Spectra, Galactic Clusters, Solar Radiation
Scientific paper
Implications of recent evidence for the mass of the neutrino for the fate of the Universe, the formation of galaxies and theories of particle physics are discussed. The invention and later discovery of the neutrino in its various forms (electron, muon and tau) are reviewed, and evidence from electron antineutrino-deuteron interactions for a difference in mass between electron and muon neutrinos and from tritium beta decay spectra for an electron neutrino mass of 36 + or - 10 eV is presented. It is shown that if neutrinos have a mass greater than 10 eV, they could constitute the dominant mass in the Universe and possibly cause it to be closed. The existence of a neutrino mass is also discussed as accounting for the missing dark mass in the formation of galactic clusters, the results of solar neutrino detection experiments, and the masses of other fundamental particles. It is pointed out, however, that the evidence presented is still controversial, and further experiments are planned.
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