Neutrino

[KFC]

How would you make a Neutrino, or how is a Neutrino made?

[woelen]

Neutrino's are not easily made. Making them requires high energy nuclear processes. Neutrino's are very elusive particles. They are very light (or even massless??) and they have VERY little interaction with the matter, we know. They are made inside the sun, where nuclear fusion is the source of energy. Neutrino's definitely are not made by chemical processes.

[swansont]

The are also made in beta decays, such as K-40 and C-14, which means you are a very, very, very, very weak neutrino source.

[KFC]

Thank you, but I never said any thing about a chemical process, of corse a Neutrino would be made though a Unclear Reaction.

[KFC]

I don't want to make another post.:

 

If you had an alloy of Uranium-235 and Beryllium and you shot Alpha Radiation at it will it start a Fission Reaction

[swansont]

Thank you, but I never said any thing about a chemical process, of corse a Neutrino would be made though a Unclear Reaction.

 

But you posted this in the Chemistry/Inorganic Chemistry section...

 

 

I don't want to make another post.:

 

If you had an alloy of Uranium-235 and Beryllium and you shot Alpha Radiation at it will it start a Fission Reaction

 

Possibly. You'd get neutrons from an (alpha, Be-9) reaction, but getting a sustained reaction is a much more complex problem. (It also depends on what you mean by "start a fission reaction." Chain reaction, or cause just one fission?)

[bob000555]

It would be possible to start a chain reaction but its better to keep your neutron source separate so neutrons aren’t wasted hitting beryllium and to get a chain reaction you need a foot ball sized peace of uranium weach is very hard (imposable) to get.