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What are sterile neutrinos?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Neutrinos Are Left-Handed, but They Do Have Mass

The Higgs field can't give masses to particles that are their own antiparticle. Neutrinos only ever exist as left-handed versions of the particle. Maybe there is a right-handed neutrino out there, but it doesn't interact with the weak force at all.

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