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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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north of Lepton Great Wood. The name "Lepton" may mean 'leap farm/settlement'. Lepton was recorded in the Domesday Book as Leptone. Lepton was formerly...
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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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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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force, have asymptotic freedom. In 1976, Martin Perl discovered the tau lepton at the SLAC. In 1977, a team led by Leon Lederman at Fermilab discovered...
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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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List of particles (section Leptons)
reasons. There are six leptons in total; the three charged leptons are called "electron-like leptons", while the neutral leptons are called "neutrinos"...
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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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LHCb experiment (redirect from Lepton flavour universality)
(lepton) universality?". CERN. Retrieved 2021-03-21. "LHCb explores the beauty of lepton universality". CERN. Retrieved 2021-03-21. "LHCb tests lepton...
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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...
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1973. Specifically: W− → charged lepton + antineutrino W+ → charged antilepton + neutrino Every entry in the lepton column can also be written as three...
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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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strong nuclear interaction. In modern terminology, this makes the muon a lepton, and not a meson. However, some communities of astrophysicists continue...
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Tau neutrino (category Leptons)
electric charge. Together with the tau (τ), it forms the third generation of leptons, hence the name tau neutrino. Its existence was immediately implied after...
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