tau lepton

noun

, Physics.

1. an unstable lepton with a mass approximately 3500 times that of the electron. : T

Word History and Origins

Origin of tau lepton¹

First recorded in 1975–80

Example Sentences

Stau sleptons are supersymmetric versions of a Standard Model particle called the tau lepton.

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Coincidentally, it would be called the tau lepton.

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“Right now the tau protein is probably more famous than the tau lepton, although I’m sure for many years it was the other way around,” Kirschner said.

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It was, for the record, the tau lepton that netted Perl the 1995 Nobel Prize in physics.

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The Standard Model of Physics predicted that each charged lepton had a neutral counterpart: A tau lepton couldn’t exist if there weren’t also a tau neutrino.

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