If and when a neutrino does bump into something, the interaction spits out one of three particles an electron, a muon or a tau (the last two are heavy, unstable objects with most of the characteristics of an electron).

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WIMPS. The more massive members of each lepton pair are the electrically charged electron (the outer constituent of atoms) and two other particles that resemble electrons in all measurable ways except that they are heavier, and are unstable in today's modern universe.

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The beams were injected at 450 billion electron volts, only a fraction of the energy that scientists will aim for when they attempt to collide two particle beams.

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One explanation for the solar-neutrino deficit (only a third of the predicted number have been detected) is that electron-neutrinos produced by nuclear-fusion reactions in the sun's core mutate into the other two types, which are harder to detect.

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