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familons

familons is the plural of familon.

Meaning of familon

Noun

familon (plural familons)

  1. (particle) A hypothetical Nambu–Goldstone boson arising from the spontaneous breaking of a global family symmetry that distinguishes between generations of quarks and leptons.
    • It could be the axion associated with the Peccei-Quinn symmetry for strong CP invariance, or it could be the "familon'", a Goldstone boson that is associated with family symmetries and was discussed by Wilczek at the TSIMESS Workshop at Santa Cruz.1983 November, S. P. Rosen, ELECTROWEAK INTERACTIONS AND BEYOND, in Proceedings of the Third LAMPF II Workshop, volume 2, page 1015

Questions about familons

What is familons the plural of?
Familons is the plural of familon.

Words near familons in the dictionary

  1. familistical
  2. familistically
  3. familists
  4. famille rose
  5. familon
  6. familons
  7. famils
  8. family
  9. family allowance
  10. family allowances
  11. family and consumer science

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