Advanced physics probelm involving conservation, from six ideas Unit C textbook

physicshard11
Messages
1
Reaction score
0

Homework Statement



A neutrino must pass within about 10^-18m of a quark to have any chance of interacting with it. Thus, the maximum target area that a quark presents to a neutrino is about 10^-36m^2. However, a neutrino moves so quickly and the weak interaction is so weak that experimentally only about 1 in 10^12 typical neutrinos passing a quark within this radius actually interacts significantly with it. Use this information and the fact that Avagadro's number of protons and/or neutrons has a mass of about 1g and the fact that the density of lead is about 11g/cm^3 to estimate the average distance (in light years) that a neutrino would travel through the lead before it interacts.
 
on Phys.org
So what's your main difficulty?
 

Similar threads

  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
4K
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
3K
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8
Views
4K
  • · Replies 26 ·
Replies
26
Views
7K
  • · Replies 61 ·
3
Replies
61
Views
11K
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
5K
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
3K
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9
Views
6K
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
2K
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9
Views
5K