Re: The mas of a neutrino.

From: Franz Heymann (notfranz.heymann_at_btopenworld.com)
Date: 03/03/05 

Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 22:24:40 +0000 (UTC)

"Randy Poe" <poespam-trap@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1109709831.014389.48580@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Helluvus wrote:
> > What is the latest mass of a neutrino. During my Ph.D it was
assumed to
> > be zero but I read somewhere that the Japanes found a very exact
value
> > for it.
>
> This site seems to suggest the question is connected to
> neutrino oscillation (there is non-zero mass if and only
> if there is oscillation).
>
> http://www.ps.uci.edu/~superk/nuosc.html
>
> Is neutrino oscillation now considered pretty much
> established?

Yes.

> I heard that was the accepted explanation
> for the "solar neutrino problem", the apparently
> missing solar neutrinos.

And yes again.

> Anyway, all I get from this site is the apparent answer
> "greater than zero", no actual bound.

Yes again.

> Here's another page with a lot of info:
> http://cupp.oulu.fi/neutrino/nd-mass.html
>
> I see a lot of upper bounds, no lower bounds.

And, you've guessed it, yes again.
Full house, Randy. 

-- 
Franz
"The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis
by an ugly fact."
T.H. Huxley

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