physics, a lepton is an elementary particle of half-integer spin (spin 1/2) that does not undergo strong interactions. Two main classes of leptons exist:...
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physics, lepton number (historically also called lepton charge) is a conserved quantum number representing the difference between the number of leptons and...
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The lepton, plural lepta (Greek: λεπτόν, λεπτά), is the name of various fractional units of currency used in the Greek-speaking world from antiquity until...
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up Lepton, lepton, leptón, or lépton in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The term lepton from the Greek λεπτός (meaning "small") may refer to: Lepton, one...
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cosmological models of the Big Bang, the lepton epoch was the period in the evolution of the early universe in which the leptons dominated the mass of the Universe...
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Matter (section Based on quarks and leptons)
(zero total lepton number and baryon number) to begin with before the annihilation—one lepton minus one antilepton equals zero net lepton number—and this...
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Tau (particle) (redirect from Tau lepton)
The tau (τ), also called the tau lepton, tau particle, tauon or tau electron, is an elementary particle similar to the electron, with negative electric...
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Flavour (particle physics) (section Leptons)
The Standard Model counts six flavours of quarks and six flavours of leptons. They are conventionally parameterized with flavour quantum numbers that...
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Electron (redirect from Electron lepton)
elementary electric charge. Electrons belong to the first generation of the lepton particle family, and are generally thought to be elementary particles because...
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LHCb experiment (redirect from Lepton flavour universality)
charged leptons (electron, muon and tau lepton) to the gauge bosons are expected to be identical, with the only difference emerging from the lepton masses...
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into 100 lepta. The first coinage consisted of copper denominations of 1 lepton, 2 lepta, 5 lepta and 10 lepta, silver denominations of 1⁄4 drachma, 1⁄2...
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particle physics. Each generation contains two types of leptons and two types of quarks. The two leptons may be classified into one with electric charge −1...
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Quarks & Leptons is the first EP by Oxide & Neutrino, released on 15 December 2013. It is the follow-up to their third album, 2nd Chance, released in...
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Lepton is a village near Huddersfield in the parish of Kirkburton, in the Kirklees district of West Yorkshire, England. It is 4.25 miles (7 km) to the...
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Fautor lepton is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Calliostomatidae within the superfamily Trochoidea, the top snails,...
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Neutrino (category Leptons)
neutrino, ν τ Each flavor is associated with the correspondingly named charged lepton. Although neutrinos were long believed to be massless, it is now known that...
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example, quarks; or electrons, muons, and tau particles, which are called leptons). Particle physics and nuclear physics study these particles and how they...
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Sterile neutrino (redirect from Neutral heavy lepton)
Sterile neutrinos (or inert neutrinos) are hypothetical particles (neutral leptons – neutrinos) that interact only via gravity and not via any of the other...
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The quark–lepton complementarity (QLC) is a possible fundamental symmetry between quarks and leptons. First proposed in 1990 by Foot and Lew, it assumes...
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created with a specific lepton family number ("lepton flavor": electron, muon, or tau) can later be measured to have a different lepton family number. The...
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can only change the baryon and/or lepton number by 3 or multiples of 3 (collision of three baryons into three leptons/antileptons and vice versa). No experimental...
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produced an asymmetry between leptons and antileptons in the very early universe, resulting in the present-day dominance of leptons over antileptons. In the...
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Koide formula (category Leptons)
of quarks and leptons, as well as CKM angles. From this model it survives the observation about the masses of the three charged leptons; later authors...
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interaction. The six leptons consist of the electron, electron neutrino, muon, muon neutrino, tau, and tau neutrino. The leptons do not carry color charge...
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who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton. Perl was born in New York City, New York. His parents, Fay (née Resenthal)...
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the Pauli exclusion principle. These particles include all quarks and leptons and all composite particles made of an odd number of these, such as all...
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Charles Wuorinen (redirect from Lepton (album))
Symphony, Herbert Blomstedt, conductor. Tzadik Records 8010 Time's Encomium / Lepton / New York Notes / Epithalamium. SurPlus Ensemble, Chamber Music Society...
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science historian and professor. He discovered the lepton numbers and established the law of lepton flavor conservation. He was the first non-British laureate...
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