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tauon

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  • noun An elementary particle, a lepton, having a mass almost twice that of a proton and a negative charge.

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  • noun a lepton of very great mass

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Examples

  • This is badly broken in the charged lepton sector, so one can write explicitly what the Lagrangian is, and the neutrino Majorana matrix respects the muon-tauon interchange, whereas the charged matrix does not.

    A Quantum Diaries Survivor 2009

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synonyms (1)

Words with the same meaning

  1. tau lepton

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. lepton

cross-references (2)

Cross-references

  1. antitauon
  2. tau neutrino

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