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How to pronounce lepton in English?

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Type Words
Type of greek monetary unit
Type Words
Type of fermion, fundamental particle, elementary particle
Has types neutrino, tau-minus particle, tauon, electron, mu-meson, muon, negative muon, negatron

Examples of lepton

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If it decays to a lepton, this would be significant because leptons have mass.
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The two-lepton analysis contributed to the latest world average measurement.
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At a later time, the lack of lepton number was converted to a non-zero baryon number.
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They also have to conserve quantum numbers, like charge and lepton number.
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Typical internal symmetries are lepton number and baryon number or the electric charge.
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International symposium on lepton and photon interactions at high energies, 21 Aug 1975.
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No 1-lepton or 2-lepta coin had been issued since the late 1870s.
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Same charge, same lepton number, same baryon number, same spin, same isospin, and almost the same mass.
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The masses of the lepton pairs are 86.3 GeV and 31.6 GeV.
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More examples
  • 100 lepta equal 1 drachma in Greece
  • An elementary particle that participates in weak interactions; has a baryon number of 0
  • Leptons are a family of elementary particles, alongside quarks and gauge bosons.
  • Charles Wuorinen (b. June 9, 1938, in New York City) is an American composer. Wuorinen is a prolific composer in all genres and a high profile proponent of contemporary music. ...
  • The lepton, plural lepta (Greek: u03BBu03B5u03C0u03C4u03CCu03BD, pl. u03BBu03B5u03C0u03C4u03AC) is the name of various fractional units of currency used in the Greek-speaking world from antiquity until today. The word means "small" or "thin", and during Classical and Hellenistic times a lepton was always a small value coin, usually the smallest available denomination of another currency...
  • A small, bronze Judean coin from the 1st century BC. The lowest value coin ever in circulation. Considered by some to be the widow's mite
  • (leptonic) Of, pertaining to, or composed of leptons
  • (leptons) Fundamental particles that are relatively non-reactive and capable of an independent existence: electrons, muons, tau particles and neutrinos.
  • Denomination of various values and weights used throughout the ancient Greek world and in modern Greece, generally a small copper or bronze coin.