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Neutrino spiral—which way?

OCT 01, 1966

DOI: 10.1063/1.3047780

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An experiment to observe the helicity of the neutrino has been proposed by S. G. Ryzhanov in an article in JETP Letters (Vol. 3, No. 2, 1 June 1966, page 299 in English, page 457 in Russian). Ryzhanov’s suggestion describes a way in which a gedanken‐experiment proposed by Jerrold Zacharias, namely observing the rotation of a macrobody covered with material undergoing beta decay, can be realized.

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