Electron neutrino

Layer 1 — Physicsin the standard-model subtree

First-generation neutrino: spin-½, electrically neutral, nearly massless (m < 0.8 eV). Couples to the electron via the charged-current weak interaction. Pauli's 1930 postulate for β-decay; detected by Cowan-Reines (1956).

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