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Another of our candidates is the neutrino—a ghostly particle with no charge or spin, and little or no mass. In fact, it’s probably fair to say it has little of anything. It therefore might seem strange that we were ever able to discover it. The experiment in which it was first detected was, indeed, a credit to the scientists who performed it—it was probably the most difficult experiment ever performed to that time.
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Parker, B. (1989). Neutrinos with Mass. In: Invisible Matter and the Fate of the Universe. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6469-4_8
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