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Coauthored the neutrino beam experiment that produced muons without the corresponding electron population, supporting a distinct muon neutrino. A shielded spark chamber recorded the interactions.^[ref]

Jack Steinberger coauthored the experiment establishing a distinction between the muon neutrino and electron neutrino. A beam produced through meson decays generated predominantly muons in the detector rather than the expected electron showers for a single common neutrino type. Comparing the two interaction signatures made lepton identity experimentally testable.^[ref]

An experimental physicist who conducted neutrino-scattering research at CERN and was the first ALEPH spokesperson.^[ref]

Coauthored the neutrino beam experiment that produced muons without the corresponding electron population, supporting a distinct muon neutrino. A shielded spark chamber recorded the interactions.^[ref]

Coauthored the neutrino beam experiment that produced muons without the corresponding electron population, supporting a distinct muon neutrino. A shielded spark chamber recorded the interactions.^[ref]

In 1962, Leon Max Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger and collaborators distinguished muon neutrinos from electron neutrinos using a neutrino beam.^[ref]

The Alternating Gradient Synchrotron delivered $15\mathrm{GeV}$ protons onto beryllium. Particle decay of pions and kaons supplied neutrinos; a $13.5\mathrm{m}$ iron shield preceded a ten-ton aluminium spark chamber.^[ref]

Production and detection are separate. In modern neutrino flavour notation,Shielding suppresses the daughter muon; a newly produced muon inside the spark chamber's aluminium marks an interaction.^[ref]

Beam-timed coincidence circuits and veto counters rejected entering tracks. Machine-off runs measured cosmic ray contamination; shield-thickness changes tested neutrons. Placing lead near the target shortened the meson decay path and reduced events. Cosmotron electron calibration established particle shower recognition.^[ref]

The paper compared $34$ single-muon candidates, including $5$ estimated cosmic ray events, with six shower candidates unlike calibrated electron showers. Kaon decays could supply genuine electron neutrinos. The deficit favored distinct neutrino flavours under lepton universality.^[ref]

The inference concerns production and detection channels. It does not measure neutrino mass or establish permanently fixed neutrino flavour. Later neutrino oscillation experiments address changes during propagation.^[ref]

Leon M. Lederman coauthored the experiment showing that neutrinos associated with muons behave differently from those associated with electrons. The detector compared long charged tracks with electron-like showers after a shielded accelerator beam crossed it. The result established a second neutrino flavor through the identity of the produced lepton.^[ref]

An experimental physicist who directed the Nevis laboratory and led accelerator experiments.^[ref]

Melvin Schwartz helped develop accelerator neutrino beams and coauthored the discovery of distinct electron and muon neutrino flavors. Letting secondary mesons decay and shielding the charged products supplied a penetrating beam. Its interactions revealed predominantly muons, connecting the production process with the flavor of the outgoing lepton.^[ref]

A physicist who held professorships at Columbia and Stanford.^[ref]

Coauthored the neutrino beam experiment that produced muons without the corresponding electron population, supporting a distinct muon neutrino. A shielded spark chamber recorded the interactions.^[ref]