Chronology of Milestone Events in Particle Physics - REINES 1953B
Chronology of Milestone Events in Particle Physics

  Nobel prize to F. Reines awarded in 1995 "for the detection of the neutrino''. Co-winner M. Perl "for the discovery of the tau lepton''  

REINES 1953B

Reines, F.; Cowan, C.L.;
Detection of the Free Neutrino
Phys. Rev. 92 (1953) 830;

Reprinted in
The Physical Review - the First Hundred Years, AIP Press (1995) CD-ROM.

Summary
An experiment has been performed to detect the free neutrino. It appears probable that this aim has been accomplished although further confirmatory work is in progress. (Extracted from the introductory part of the paper.).

Accelerator REACTOR Detectors CNTR

Related references
More (earlier) information appears in
F. Reines and C. L. Cowan, Phys. Rev. 90 (1953) 492;
C. L. Cowan, F. Reines et al., Phys. Rev. 90 (1953) 493;
More (later) information appears in
C. L. Cowan, F. Reines et al., Science 124 (1956) 103;

Reactions
  e p n e+ 1.8-6.0 MeV (Elab) cs

Particles studied
  e ex
  e ex

Record comments
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