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Even Bananas 07: The three neutrino flavors

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Grab your bibs – in today’s tasty episode, we’re digging into neutrino flavors. Join Fermilab scientist Dr. Kirsty Duffy and archivist Valerie Higgins to meet the three flavors of neutrinos and learn how to catch a neutrino with a DONUT.

From the Fermilab archives - Leon Lederman:

https://history.fnal.gov/historical/people/lederman.html

Lederman's Nobel Prize thank you card:

https://history.fnal.gov/historical/people/lederman_thank_you.html

Lederman attends party in a suit of armor:

https://vms.fnal.gov/asset/detail?recid=1742859

DONUT press release announcing discovery of the tau neutrino:

https://news.fnal.gov/2000/07/physicists-find-first-direct-evidence-tau-neutrino-fermilab/

Even Bananas playlist:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCfRa7MXBEsp1cvIsZ4shi6MrHb-tnAqT

All Things Neutrino:

https://neutrinos.fnal.gov

Fermilab physics 101:

https://www.fnal.gov/pub/science/particle-physics-101/index.html

Fermilab home page:

https://fnal.gov​

Production Credits:

Creator: Lauren Biron
Host: Kirsty Duffy
Writers: Lauren Biron, Kirsty Duffy, Scott Hershberger
Director: Ryan Postel
Editor: Ian Krass
Graphic Designer: Diana Brandonisio
Guest: Valerie Higgins
Camera/Audio: Luke Pickering
Theme Song: Scott Hershberger
Music: Pond5.com

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