What particle did Raymond Davis Jr.'s experiment first detect?
Positrons
Quarks
Neutrinos emitted from the Sun
Bosons
Answer
Neutrinos, elusive subatomic particles that lack electric charge and have almost no mass, were first detected by Raymond Davis Jr.'s experiment. Conducted in the late 1960s, his pioneering work involved a massive tank of cleaning fluid deep in a gold mine in South Dakota, where he successfully captured and measured neutrinos emitted from nuclear fusion reactions in the Sun.
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