Why Was the Davis Experiment Only Able to Detect One-Third

question 38

Multiple Choice

Why was the Davis experiment only able to detect one-third of the neutrinos originally predicted?

• A) Most of the neutrinos were absorbed by Earth's atmosphere.
• B) The neutrinos combined with other particles as they entered Earth's atmosphere.
• C) The neutrinos distributed evenly among three different flavors while traveling to Earth.
• D) The number of neutrinos was too great to be held in the tank that Davis designed.
• E) The other two-thirds of neutrinos dissipated while traveling to Earth.

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