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    W.B.C.S. Main 2018 Question Answer – Physics – The Neutrino Hypothesis.

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    The study of radioactive disintegrations had established that alpha rays were ‘monokinetic’ – in that they always took away the same percentage (100%) of the energy available in the decay. Beta rays, by comparison, could have any of a range of energy values. Whereas the alpha energy distribution is reduced to a single value, the energy distribution (or spectrum) of beta rays can take any value between zero and the total energy available.Continue Reading W.B.C.S. Main 2018 Question Answer – Physics – The Neutrino Hypothesis.

    In 1930, this evidence was problematic for physicists working in the field. What happened to the law of conservation of energy for beta decay? The seemingly missing energy even led Niels Bohr to propose doing away with that most fundamental conservation law. A mortal sin for a physicist.

    In order to save the law of conservation of energy, the Swiss physicist Wolfgang Pauli postulated the existence of an electrically-neutral, low mass (at most 1/100 the mass of the proton) particle that would be emitted along with the beta particle. This hypothetical third body could then take away whatever energy was not given to the beta particle; solving that most vexing of issues. Pauli first proposed this hypothesis in a humorous letter to his colleagues Lise Meitner and Hans Geiger.

    Enrico Fermi, the great Italian physicist, was immediately convinced. Building on the discussions held at the Solvay Conference on October 1933 (devoted to James Chadwick’s discovery of the neutron), he proposed the theory of beta decay based on a hypothesis that an electron-neutrino pair is spontaneously produced by a nucleus in the same way that photons can spontaneously be emitted by excited atoms.

    Francis Perrin concluded that for such a particle to exist it must either have zero mass or be lightweight even by comparison with the electron.

    Fermi’s theory was the precursor of today theory of ‘weak interaction’. The Fermi’s theory of a point-like interaction of four particles (for instance, an initial neutron becoming a proton, an electron and an antineutrino), was accepted as a canon, an article of faith without proof during a quarter of century..

    The neutrino remained a hypothetical particle until evidence for its existence was brought forward by Reines and Cowan in 1956.

    In 1955, the American physicist Murray Gell Mann introduced the notion of a weak force active not only in radioactive processes, but in other processes whose effects involving several types of neutrinos could be seen in a host of subatomic phenomena.

    Since its ‘invention’ by Pauli and the subsequent experimental evidence found in its favour, the neutrino and its antiparticle have played a vital role in the fundamentals of particle physics. Possessing no electrical charge, neutrinos are affected solely by the weak interaction, which allows for closer examination of that force without the ‘background noise’ provided by the other nuclear or atomic forces.

    Besides the crucial role it plays in the physics of the infinitely small, the neutrino plays an important role in astrophysics. It could be for instance a key to understand the ‘hidden mass of the Universe’.

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