How do you distinguish between neutrinos of different types?

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The discussion focuses on distinguishing between different types of neutrinos, specifically through the measurement of lepton byproducts. It emphasizes that the mass eigenstate of neutrinos cannot be identified due to sensitivity limitations. Instead, flavor identification is achieved by analyzing the lepton produced during neutrino interactions. A notable example provided is the OPERA experiment's measurement of tau neutrinos within a muon neutrino dominated beam, which involved identifying tau decay processes.

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since we don't know its mass,, is it by looking at the lepton by products?
 
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is it by looking at the lepton by products?

Exactly.

When measuring a [itex]\nu[/itex], we don't have the sensitivity required to idendify the mass eigenstate.

we measure the flavor, by identifying the flavor of the lepton produced.

See for example opera's measurement of tau neutrinos in a muon neutrino dominated beam

by identifying the tau decay http://arxiv.org/pdf/1006.1623v1.pdf
 

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