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- From: sichase@csa2.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: neutrinos & anti-neutrinos
- Date: 9 Sep 92 21:47:16 GMT
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Message-ID: <26187@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
- References: <1992Sep9.191031.17922@ucselx.sdsu.edu> <26186@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
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- Summary: A question
- Keywords: neutrino, antineutrino,anti-neutrino
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- In article <26186@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, sichase@csa2.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE) writes...
- >In article <1992Sep9.191031.17922@ucselx.sdsu.edu>, maxc0452@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Legene) writes...
- >>Could someone please tell me what the annihilation products
- >>of neutrinos and anti-neutrinos are? I'd appreciate it ever-so-much.
- >
- >It depends entirely on the energy of the particles (in the center-of-momentum
- >frame) when they collide. At low energy, it's only photons, because there
- >is not enough energy to produce anything else (i.e, anything with mass).
- >At higher energy, there are many possibilities.
-
- At low energies, add other neutrino-antineutrino pairs of all flavors,
- assuming that all neutrinos are massless.
-
- -Scott
-
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- Scott I. Chase "The question seems to be of such a character
- SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV that if I should come to life after my death
- and some mathematician were to tell me that it
- had been definitely settled, I think I would
- immediately drop dead again." - Vandiver
-