Evidence of Heavy-Neutrino Emission in Beta Decay
- 29 April 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 54 (17), 1891-1893
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.54.1891
Abstract
The observation of a distortion of the spectrum of tritium is reported. This distortion is consistent with the emission of a neutrino of mass about 17.1 keV and a mixing probability of 3%.
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