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The idea of neutrino was put forward by W. Pauli in 1930. This was a dramatic time in physics. After it was established in the Ellis and Wooster experiment that the average energy of the electrons produced in the β-decay is significantly smaller than the total released energy, only the existence of neutrino, a neutral particle with a small mass and a large penetration length (much larger then the penetration length of the photon), which is emitted in the β-decay together with the electron, could save the fundamental law of the conservation of energy.
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Bilenky, S. (2011). Introduction. In: Introduction to the Physics of Massive and Mixed Neutrinos. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 817. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14043-3_1
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