Antitauon (Noun)
Meaning
An antilepton of very great mass.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made).
Examples
- The antitauon is a heavy antilepton that was first detected in the 1970s in high-energy particle collisions.
- In the standard model of particle physics, the antitauon is the antiparticle of the tau lepton.
- The antitauon has a very short lifetime, typically on the order of picoseconds, before it decays into other particles.
- Experiments at particle accelerators have shown that the antitauon has a mass about 17 times that of the muon.
- The study of antitauons has provided important insights into the behavior of matter and antimatter at the subatomic level.