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“The neutrino is the smallest bit of material reality ever conceived of by man; the largest is the universe. To attempt to understand something of one in terms of the other is to attempt to span the dimension in which lie all manifestations of natural law.” These comments were made in 1956 by Cowan and Reines in their report on the definite evidence of the neutrino,1 the elementary particle that Pauli postulated 26 years earlier in his attempt to explain the continuous energy spectrum of the electrons emitted by β-decays of nuclei:\({N_1}\left( Z \right) \to {N_2}\left( {Z + 1} \right) + {e^ - } + {\overline v _e}\).
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Ho-Kim, Q., Pham, XY. (1998). The Neutrinos. In: Elementary Particles and Their Interactions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03712-6_12
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