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    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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    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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    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, 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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    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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    Neutrino (redirect from Ν particle)
    (/njuːˈtriːnoʊ/ new-TREE-noh; denoted by the Greek letter ν) is an elementary particle that interacts via the weak interaction and gravity. The neutrino is so...
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    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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  • 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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    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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  • {\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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Kaon (redirect from K-particle)
    in particle physics was. It was very exciting. — Fowler (2024) This led to the so-called 'tau–theta' problem: what seemed to be the same particle (now...
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  • {def} }{=}}\ (c\tau )^{2}} where τ {\displaystyle \tau } is the proper time as measured by a clock in the rest frame of the particle and the Minkowski...
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  • sfermion is a hypothetical spin-0 superpartner particle (sparticle) of its associated fermion. Each particle has a superpartner with spin that differs by...
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  • \tau _{p}={\frac {\rho _{p}d_{p}^{2}}{18\mu }}.} Here d p {\displaystyle d_{p}} is the particle diameter, ρ p {\displaystyle \rho _{p}} , the particle...
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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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  • 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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    Gaugino (redirect from Wino (particle))
    In supersymmetry theories of particle physics, a gaugino is the hypothetical fermionic supersymmetric field quantum (superpartner) of a gauge field, as...
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  • {\displaystyle \tau } , in the case of a test particle of small positive mass, is the proper time (time measured by a clock moving with the particle) in seconds...
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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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    J/psi meson (redirect from J particle)
    The J/ψ (J/psi) meson /ˈdʒeɪ ˈsaɪ ˈmiːzɒn/ is a subatomic particle, a flavor-neutral meson consisting of a charm quark and a charm antiquark. Mesons formed...
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