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Why is it found experimentally difficult to detect neutrinos in nuclear β-decay?
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Solution
Neutrinos are difficult to detect experimentally in β decay because they are uncharged particles with almost no mass. Also, neutrinos interact very weakly with matter, so they are very difficult to detect.
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