Is there a neutrino spectrum analogous to light spectrum?

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Is there something like a "neutrino spectrum"?.
Would it be analog to light spectrum?.
Sorry for the ignorance, just curious.
AGZ
 
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Neutrinos have different energies, just like photons have different energies. But we don't give them different names depending on their energies, like we do with photons (gamma-ray, X-ray, etc.).
 
Neutrinos also come in 3 different flavors, but that's not really analogous to the photon spectrum...
 
alvarogz said:
Is there something like a "neutrino spectrum"?.
Would it be analog to light spectrum?.
Sorry for the ignorance, just curious.



AGZ

As jtbell implies, there is such a thing for every particle. E.g. people look for dark matter by measuring the energy spectra of electrons and positrons hitting a box strapped to the side of the international space station.