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lepton
1[ lep-ton ]
noun
- an aluminum coin of modern Greece until the euro was adopted, one 100th of a drachma.
- a small copper or bronze coin of ancient Greece.
lepton
2[ lep-ton ]
noun
- any of a class of particles with spin of ½ that are not subject to the strong force and that are believed to be truly elementary and not composed of quarks or other subunits. The leptons known or believed to exist are the electron and electron-neutrino, the muon and mu-neutrino, and the tau lepton and tau-neutrino.
lepton
1/ ˈɛɒ /
noun
- a former Greek monetary unit worth one hundredth of a drachma
- a small coin of ancient Greece
lepton
2/ ˈɛɒ /
noun
- physics any of a group of elementary particles and their antiparticles, such as an electron, muon, or neutrino, that participate in electromagnetic and weak interactions and have a half-integral spin
lepton
/ ĕ′ŏ′ /
- Any of a family of elementary particles that interact through the weak force and do not participate in the strong force. Leptons include electrons, muons, tau particles, and their respective neutrinos, the electron neutrino, the muon neutrino, and the tau neutrino. The antiparticles of these six particles are also leptons.
lepton
- Any one of six elementary particles that are one of the fundamental constituents of matter . Leptons are not affected by the strong force and are not normally found in the nucleus of the atom . The electron and the neutrino are examples of leptons.
Derived Forms
- ˈٴDzԾ, adjective
Other yvlog Forms
- ·ٴDzi adjective
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of lepton1
Origin of lepton2
Example Sentences
Their approach attempts to illuminate a cosmological constant as well as the properties of leptons and quarks.
Turner: As far as we know, the basic building blocks of matter are quarks and leptons; the rules that govern them are described by the quantum field theory called the Standard Model.
If the present hints of lepton universality violation hold up, they could provide long-sought guidance toward a more complete fundamental theory of particle physics.
Subatomic particles appear to be breaking a rule called “lepton flavor universality.”
But Dr. Patel and his colleagues have found more electron pairs than muon pairs, violating a principle called lepton universality.
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