Recent content by Opiacy

I'm trying to understand the energy spectrum of neutrinos ejected from the sun. Any suggestions on a book that covers this aspect of beta+ decay? I'm just not sure how to treat the kinematics of a fusion reaction or decay- only collisions. Thanks.

Humanino, one resource you didn't include that found very helpful was the neutrino summer school lecture series given at Fermilab over the past two months. There are about 32 hour-and-a-quarter long lectures. www.fnal.gov. Good stuff, man. And also, after giving it some thought, I agree that...

I guess I might as well. I didn't know if that's how it was, but I guess it is. Cool, thanks. I suppose that now I need to ask, is 'it is what it is' and acceptable answer, or a cop out? I'm off to find a philosophy board.

Because I'm looking for something a little less vague. I'm going to go out on a limb here and suppose that the term 'flavor' is less a lable of a type of neutrino and more a reference to the property that I'm trying to get at. I guess a better way to ask the question is, what, precisely, is...

I'm a new grad student preparing to do some work on Daya Bay, and I'm basically taking in all the information on neutrinos that I can right now. It's pretty interesting stuff, but I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on the following: Assuming I correctly understand that neutrino flavor...

That paper was extremely enlightening. Thanks very much, cristo. The mechanism of the expansion of the universe is much more clear now- but now I'm confused about the existence of energy. Before I read the paper, I thought the theory attempted to partially explain that, but there was no mention...

So you're saying that space time is propegating like a wavefront, then? Or that it expands in more than four dimensions? Or something else? I've looked for a paper on the subject, and I can't seem to find one.

I'm not sure exactly what discipline this falls under, so general it is. If there is a better place to put this, please let me know. Anyway, A colleague and I were having a philisophical discussion about the nature of the expansion of the universe from the point of view of big bang theory. I...