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muon-neutrino

/myoo-on-noo-tree-noh, -nyoo-/US // ˈmyu ɒn nuˌtri noʊ, -nyu- //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural mu·on-neu·tri·nos.Physics.

    • : a type of neutrino that obeys a conservation law together with the muon, with the total number of muons and muon-neutrinos minus the total number of their antiparticles remaining constant.

Examples

  • I made every last one of them, from the hunky handsome proton to the waifish, Starbucks-named neutrino.

  • "I think I am getting somewhere on my photon-neutrino-electron interchange-cycle," he announced.

  • The night he came home with six hundred newly-won credits, Hawkes opened a drawer and took out a slim, sleek neutrino gun.

  • The behavior of the muon is well understood, but its role as one of the elementary particles is unknown.

  • The muon is unstable, eventually undergoing a radioactive decay into an electron.

  • Although the muon does not experience nuclear forces, it can interact weakly with nuclei.