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Weak forces
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The weak interaction is expressed with respect to nuclear electrons and the continuous β-ray emission spectrum of β decay.[1]
"The observation of a neutrino burst within 3 h of the associated optical burst from supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud provides a new test of the weak equivalence principle, by demonstrating that neutrinos and photons follow the same trajectories in the gravitational field of the galaxy."[2]
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Fred L. Wilson (December 1968). "Fermi's Theory of Beta Decay". American Journal of Physics 36 (12): 1150-60. http://microboone-docdb.fnal.gov/cgi-bin/RetrieveFile?docid=953;filename=FermiBetaDecay1934.pdf;version=1. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
- ↑ Lawrence M. Krauss, Scott Tremaine (January 1988). "Test of the Weak Equivalence Principle for Neutrinos and Photons". Physical Review Letters 60 (3): 176–7. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.60.176. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.60.176.