Detecting the flavors of neutrinos
Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - 09:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Yesterday I talked about the weirdness of neutrinos, specifically that there three types of neutrinos (known as flavors), and they can oscillate between different flavors due to the quantum fuzziness of their masses. If you go back and read that post, you'll find its a pretty bizarre model that seems to assume a great deal just to solve what is known as the solar neutrino problem. So how could we possibly know that such a model is correct?