Really cool, neutrinos create particles with no clue how its done. Producing an entirely new particle – in this case a charged pion – requires much more energy than it would take to blast the nucleus apart – which is why the physicists are always surprised that the reaction happens as often as it does. McFarland adds that even painstakingly detailed theoretical calculations for this reaction have been all over the map.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 01:25:55 +0000