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lepton
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
lepton \lepton\ n. (Physics) an elementary particle that participates in weak interactions but does not participate in the strong interaction; it has a baryon number of 0. Some known leptons are the electron , the negative muon , the tau-minus particle ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. 100 lepta equal 1 drachma an elementary particle that participates in weak interactions; has a baryon number of 0 [also: lepta (pl)]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
elementary particle of small mass, 1948, from Greek leptos "small, slight, slender, delicate" (from lepein "to peel," from PIE *lep- ; see leper ) + -on . Also the name of a small coin in ancient Greece, from neuter of leptos
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The term lepton from the Greek λεπτός (meaning "small") may refer to: Lepton , one of the two classes of fermionic (matter) particles Greek lepton , a small denomination of currency in Greece Lepton may also refer to: Lepton, West Yorkshire , England Lepton ...
Usage examples of lepton.
Its intense gravity had pulled many stars down toward its centre, pulled them apart into leptons and photons, annihilating them.
He spoke of problems with linear and angular momentum, potential fields, quantum tunneling by photons, leptons, baryons, gravitons.
He staggered under the impact of the twin flowsdarkness and the crushing might of chaos welling from the hot magma far beneath Candar, chaos hot enough to melt even ship alloys, with enough free electrons, unstable quarks, leptons .
The three-of-a-kind combinations could be arranged in only one way and corresponded to leptons, which was why leptons could not carry a color charge and did not react to the strong nuclear force.
They moved on to the first chemistry exhibit, which showed the paraboloid bowl at the bottom of the well, with a translucent electric-blue bell-shape superimposed over it: the lepton wave in its lowest-energy, ground state.
Put quarks together in their many attributes and you can account for (maybe) all those 200-odd hadrons (and have a system paralleling the leptons or light particles as a bonus).
Mark said, seriously, “The planet with the most silicon I know of is Lepta with 32.
Nevertheless, all the exotic variations created could be accounted for by the same eight ground-state quarks and leptons, plus their respective antiparticles, together with the field quanta through which they interacted.
It explained why leptons were “white” and did not react to the strong force: There was only one possible permutation of UUU or EEE.
And it explained why the electrical charges on quarks and leptons were equal: They were carried by the same tweedles.
But the energy used to produce leptons was not nearly enough to produce a Higgs.
So also are the kliks and pseudo-kliks that compose the much less massive leptons, such as electrons and muons.
Only after Henry M'Bokoko's theory of leptons and pseudo-leptons was it realised there were yet more elementary entities.
The Standard Model consists of six quarks, six leptons, five known bosons and a postulated sixth, the Higgs boson (named for a Scottish scientist, Peter Higgs), plus three of the four physical forces: the strong and weak nuclear forces and electromagnetism.
This postulates that all those little things like quarks and leptons that we had previously thought of as particles are actually “strings”—vibrating strands of energy that oscillate in eleven dimensions, consisting of the three we know already plus time and seven other dimensions that are, well, unknowable to us.