Tau-minus Particle (Noun)
Meaning
A lepton of very great mass.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made).
Examples
- The tau-minus particle is the most massive lepton known, approximately 3,500 times more massive than the electron.
- In the 1970s physicists discovered the tau-minus particle, a lepton that greatly surpassed the electron and muon in mass.
- High-energy particle accelerators were necessary to produce the tau-minus particle due to its exceptionally high mass.
- One major consequence of the tau-minus particle's massive size was that its predicted weak nuclear decay deviated from what the weak nuclear theory of other leptons forecast.
- Production and identification of the tau-minus particle demonstrated scientists had begun unraveling and determining patterns behind many undiscovered fundamental particle relationships in theoretical models and classification tables for fermions like electrons, positrons and antineutrinos and antiquarks that revealed something resembling higher classifications called superpartner properties and patterns for the existence of the quarks and leptons discovered in collisions accelerating charged leptons in ring tunnel electron synchrotrons.