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The neutrino was invented by Wolfgang Pauli in 1930 to explain a problem concerning nuclear beta decay. The emitted electrons had a continuous energy spectrum, whereas they were expected to have one or possibly a few discrete energies corresponding to the energy of the nuclear transition. Pauli proposed that a neutral particle was emitted together with the electron so that the sum of the energies of this particle and the electron was essentially constant.
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Wolfenstein, L. (1999). Neutrino Physics. In: Bederson, B. (eds) More Things in Heaven and Earth. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1512-7_15
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