lepton

• It was also a lepton, a heavy cousin of the electron - 200 times heavier to be exact. —  Omni: January 1994
• Martin Perl found its accompanying lepton, the tau, at SLAC When you add to the above the various bosons - messenger particles that represent the three forces - you have, voila, the standard model (see chart). —  Omni: January 1994
• The Higgs is not a matter particle like a quark or lepton, but a messenger particle that weaves a field, much as the photon creates electromagnetic fields. —  Omni: January 1994
• If the above hypotheses all apply, then neutrinos are massless, and three separate lepton numbers are conserved. —  A Quantum Diaries Survivor
• Majorana ones violate lepton number and separately the three of them. —  A Quantum Diaries Survivor

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