The simulation visualizes a neutrino beam traveling from a source to a detector, showing how the probability of measuring each flavor oscillates smoothly as a function of distance traveled, based on the two-flavor oscillation formula.
Choose a starting flavor, drag the mixing angle and delta-m-squared sliders to change the oscillation strength and wavelength, and press play to watch the flavor probabilities rise and fall as the neutrino propagates from source to detector.
Starting flavor select, mixing angle slider, delta-m-squared slider, play/pause propagation
Trillions of solar neutrinos pass harmlessly through your body every second, and thanks to oscillation, roughly two-thirds of the electron-neutrinos the Sun produces have already changed flavor by the time they reach Earth, which is exactly why early solar neutrino detectors seemed to be missing so many of them.
The simulation visualizes a neutrino beam traveling from a source to a detector, showing how the probability of measuring each flavor oscillates smoothly as a function of distance traveled, based on the two-flavor oscillation formula.
The simulation visualizes a neutrino beam traveling from a source to a detector, showing how the probability of measuring each flavor oscillates smoothly as a function of distance traveled, based on the two-flavor oscillation formula.
Choose a starting flavor, drag the mixing angle and delta-m-squared sliders to change the oscillation strength and wavelength, and press play to watch the flavor probabilities rise and fall as the neutrino propagates from source to detector.
Trillions of solar neutrinos pass harmlessly through your body every second, and thanks to oscillation, roughly two-thirds of the electron-neutrinos the Sun produces have already changed flavor by the time they reach Earth, which is exactly why early solar neutrino detectors seemed to be missing so many of them.