lepton
Noun
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is a type of: greek monetary unit - monetary unit in Greeceis a part of: drachma, greek drachma - formerly the basic unit of money in Greece
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is a type of:
- elementary particle, fundamental particle - (physics) a particle that is less complex than an atom; regarded as constituents of all matter
- fermion - any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle
subtypes:- electron, negatron - an elementary particle with negative charge
- mu-meson, muon, negative muon - an elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of 2 microsecond; decays to electron and neutrino and antineutrino
- neutrino - an elementary, electrically neutral particle with a very small mass
- tau-minus particle, tauon - a lepton of very great mass
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