Re:Record-breaking neutrino is most energetic ever detected
by tsimionescu on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @05:17PM
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There's nothing to optimize here, neutrinos just interact very very weakly with anything else because they don't carry charge (so no electrical interactions), don't carry color charge (so no nuclear interactions), don't carry weak charge (so no weak force interactions) and have tiny tiny masses, but they are still bosons (so don't act as field carriers like photons do, they're just regular matter). Their low chance of interacting with matter is a fundamental property of them, there's nothing you can do about it through technology, just like you can't create heavier electrons or weaker quarks.
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Re:Record-breaking neutrino is most energetic ever detected
by gus_massa on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @08:04PM
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> don't carry weak charge (so no weak force interactions)
Left neutrino have weak hypercharge, so they are produce by weak interactions and are detected using the weak interaction. And also gravity.
Right neutrinos (if they exist) have no weak hypercharge so they only interact by gravity.
Re:Record-breaking neutrino is most energetic ever detected
by tsimionescu on Thursday February 13, 2025 @05:19AM
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Thanks for the correction!