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Lee Yang Wu

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theory · · 8 min read

Why neutrinos are left-handed: chirality and the broken symmetry of the weak force

Every neutrino ever observed in the laboratory has had a particular intrinsic orientation called left-handed chirality. Right-handed ones, if they exist, have somehow stayed completely invisible. This single-handedness is one of the deepest pieces of the Standard Model — and one of the most puzzling.