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This chapter touches on the various milestone measurements in the history of the neutrino and outlines many of their basic properties. As perhaps the most important development in its young history, a more complete development and review of neutrino oscillations is saved for Chap. 3.
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Grange, J. (2015). Neutrino Overview. In: First Measurement of the Muon Anti-Neutrino Charged Current Quasielastic Double-Differential Cross Section. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09573-8_2
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