The most recent direct discovery of one was in the DONUT experiment. The 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics went to Lederman, Schwartz, and Steinberger for discovering the second one
The most recent direct discovery of one was in the DONUT experiment. The 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics went to Lederman, Schwartz, and Steinberger for discovering the second one. They come in doublets with the charged leptons. We only see one third of the number that we expect from the sun, which in recent years has been the foundation for evidence that they have mass. They respond to neither electromagnetism nor the strong force, but they do have weak interactions. For ten points, what are these light neutral particles first postulated to explain the continuous spectrum of beta decay by Wolfgang Pauli?
The most recent direct discovery of one was in the DONUT experiment.