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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particle, which is not composed of other particles (for example, quarks; or electrons, muons, and tau particles, which are called leptons). Particle physics...
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The tau neutrino or tauon neutrino is an elementary particle which has the symbol ν τ and zero electric charge. Together with the tau (τ), it forms the...
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Martin Lewis Perl (category American particle physicists)
critic for The New Republic. The tau lepton (τ, also called the tau particle, tauon or simply tau) is an elementary particle similar to the electron, with...
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Lepton (category Elementary particles)
whereas muons and taus can only be produced in high-energy collisions (such as those involving cosmic rays and those carried out in particle accelerators)...
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lepton, an elementary particle in particle physics Tau emerald, a species of dragonfly Tau neutrino a subatomic elementary particle Tau protein, a biochemical...
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mechanics The lifetime of a spontaneous emission process Tau, an elementary particle in particle physics Tau in astronomy is a measure of optical depth, or how...
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Standard Model (redirect from Particle physics standard model)
muon, and tau) and quarks. As the Higgs boson is massive, it must interact with itself. Because the Higgs boson is a very massive particle and also decays...
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Neutrino (redirect from Ν particle)
new-TREE-noh; denoted by the Greek letter ν) is a fermion (an elementary particle with spin of 1 /2) that interacts only via the weak interaction and...
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In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a subatomic particle that is not composed of other particles. The Standard Model...
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Higgs boson (redirect from Higgs particle)
Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the quantum excitation...
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the particle's velocity: P ( t ) = exp ( − t γ τ ) {\displaystyle P(t)=\exp \left(-{\frac {t}{\gamma \tau }}\right)} where τ {\displaystyle \tau } is...
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Particle physics or high-energy physics is the study of fundamental particles and forces that constitute matter and radiation. The field also studies...
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{\hbar }{\tau }}} where ℏ = h 2 π {\displaystyle {\hbar }={\frac {h}{2\pi }}} and h is the Planck constant. Thus, the lifetime of a particle is the direct...
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Wave-particle duality is the concept in quantum mechanics that quantum entities exhibit particle or wave properties according to the experimental circumstances...
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of their faith Taus (instrument), a string instrument from India The plural of the Greek letter tau The plural of subatomic tau particle This disambiguation...
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the particle. The shearing formula goes as: Δ τ = r particle l interparticle γ particle-matrix {\displaystyle \Delta \tau ={\frac {r_{\text{particle...
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W and Z bosons (redirect from W particle)
In particle physics, the W and Z bosons are vector bosons that are together known as the weak bosons or more generally as the intermediate vector bosons...
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In particle physics, flavour or flavor refers to the species of an elementary particle. The Standard Model counts six flavours of quarks and six flavours...
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Kaon (redirect from K-particle)
particle of very similar mass that decayed to three pions.(p82) This led to the so-called 'tau–theta' problem: what seemed to be the same particles (now...
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In the physical sciences, a particle (or corpuscule in older texts) is a small localized object which can be described by several physical or chemical...
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neutrino. In 2010, the INFN and CERN announced the observation of a tau particle in a muon neutrino beam in the OPERA detector located at Gran Sasso,...
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1+\tau {}\alpha } ) to the term itself. Via substitution and arithmetic, the type expands to 1 + τ + τ 2 + τ 3 + ⋯ {\displaystyle 1+\tau +\tau ^{2}+\tau...
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DONUT (redirect from Direct Observation of the NU Tau)
but was generally accepted because the particle was expected to be there. The final report of 2008 identifies 9 tau neutrino events from a total sample of...
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Antiparticle (redirect from Anti-particle)
In particle physics, every type of particle of "ordinary" matter (as opposed to antimatter) is associated with an antiparticle with the same mass but with...
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The timeline of particle physics lists the sequence of particle physics theories and discoveries in chronological order. The most modern developments...
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In particle physics, a massless particle is an elementary particle whose invariant mass is zero. At present the only confirmed massless particle is the...
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This is a list of known and hypothesized particles. Elementary particles are particles with no measurable internal structure; that is, it is unknown whether...
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Boson (redirect from Bose particle)
In particle physics, a boson (/ˈboʊzɒn/ /ˈboʊsɒn/) is a subatomic particle whose spin quantum number has an integer value (0, 1, 2, ...). Bosons form...
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result of a finer particle spacing. The level of τ b {\displaystyle \tau _{b}} is unaffected by particle strength. That is, once a particle is strong enough...
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