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The first experimentally detected neutrino was actually an anti-neutrino

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The first experimentally detected neutrino, discovered by Frederick Reines and Clyde Cowan in 1956 using a nuclear reactor, was indeed an electron antineutrino.

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Metal-loaded liquid scintillators for neutrino experiments

2008 · cited by 5

Paper [3] explicitly notes that the early discovery experiment by Reines and Cowan involved antineutrino capture and the delayed neutron-capture signal following antineutrino detection.

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1st Franco–Algerian Workshop on Neutrino Physics

2015 · cited by 1

Paper [8] recounts the discovery of the neutrino in the Cowan-Reines experiment, which utilized a nuclear reactor as a source of antineutrinos.

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