form: λεπτόν leptón); the earliest attested form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek 𐀩𐀡𐀵, re-po-to, written in Linear B syllabic script. Lepton was first...

physics, lepton number (historically also called lepton charge) is a conserved quantum number representing the difference between the number of leptons and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

The Standard Model counts six flavours of quarks and six flavours of leptons. They are conventionally parameterized with flavour quantum numbers that...

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...

Fautor lepton is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Calliostomatidae within the superfamily Trochoidea, the top snails,...

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...

During the lepton epoch the temperature of the universe was still high enough to create lepton–anti-lepton pairs, so leptons and anti-leptons were in thermal...

elementary electric charge. Electrons belong to the first generation of the lepton particle family, and are generally thought to be elementary particles because...

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...

(lepton) universality?". CERN. Retrieved 2021-03-21. "LHCb explores the beauty of lepton universality". CERN. Retrieved 2021-03-21. "LHCb tests lepton...

Sterile neutrinos (or inert neutrinos) are hypothetical particles (neutral leptons – neutrinos) that interact only via gravity and not via any of the other...

reasons. There are six leptons in total; the three charged leptons are called "electron-like leptons", while the neutral leptons are called "neutrinos"...

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...

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...

spin-1/2, but with a much greater mass. It is classified as a lepton. As with other leptons, the muon is not thought to be composed of any simpler particles...

example, quarks; or electrons, muons, and tau particles, which are called leptons). Particle physics and nuclear physics study these particles and how they...

interaction. The six leptons consist of the electron, electron neutrino, muon, muon neutrino, tau, and tau neutrino. The leptons do not carry color charge...

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...

whose only hope is to join the Leptons and reclaim her glory. Though Ace Ambling, the young lead player of the Leptons, looks up to her, she usually ridicules...

hypothetical point particles, conceived of as sub-components of quarks and leptons. The word was coined by Jogesh Pati and Abdus Salam, in 1974. Interest...

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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charged lepton and a neutrino. The decays of W bosons into quarks are difficult to distinguish from the background, and the decays into leptons cannot...

interactions (which is not conserved in weak interactions and is zero for leptons). In the electroweak theory SU(2) transformations commute with U(1) transformations...

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...