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Q.What are the properties of neutrino ?
Tamil Nadu DgeTamil Nadu HSC (DGE) Board 2020Subjective· 2mImportance★★★★★
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →The neutrino is a chargeless, almost massless, spin-1/2 particle that travels close to the speed of light and interacts so weakly with matter that it is extremely penetrating; it is emitted during beta decay.
- Charge: the neutrino is electrically neutral (charge = 0).
- Mass: it has an extremely small rest mass, long assumed to be exactly zero in the simplest beta-decay theory (now known to be non-zero but very tiny).
- Spin: it has spin (it is a fermion, obeys the Pauli exclusion principle).
- Speed: it travels at a speed very close to the speed of light.
- Interaction: it interacts with matter only through the weak nuclear force (and gravity), so its interaction probability is extremely small.
- Penetrating power: because it interacts so weakly, it has enormous penetrating power — it can pass through the earth (and much thicker matter) with a negligible chance of being absorbed or scattered. …
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