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- noun physics The differential production of
leptons , rather thanantileptons , in the early universe
Etymologies
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lepto- + genesis
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The theoretical lectures offer reviews by experts on topics which include the limits of the standard model, a description of the neutrino mass, supersymmetry, leptogenesis / baryogenesis, scalar fields, and extra-dimensions.
AvaxHome RSS: 2009
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Having already discussed electroweak baryogenesis, I’d now like to turn to another possible way that this asymmetry may have come about - leptogenesis.
Matter v Antimatter III: Leptogenesis Mark 2008
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