Posts in particle physics

As you've probably guessed by now, there's a lot we don't know about neutrinos and how they function in astrophysics. They have a lot of mysteries in store for us. Here are a few:

When last we left our heroes, the Sudbury Solar Neutrino Observatory (SNO) had concluded that while predictions for the total flux of neutrinos at the Earth were accurate, only about a third of those that reach us are electron neutrinos. This naturally begs the question: what are the rest of them?