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hooperon

hooperon noun: a proposed WIMP dark matter particle.

Noun

hooperon (plural hooperons)

  1. A proposed WIMP dark matter particle
    • A gauge singlet, the hooperon, induces the GeV gamma ray signal in the Fermi-LAT data through annihilation into vector-like leptons or quarks.2016, Manuel Ernst Krauss, Toby Opferkuch, Florian Staub, Martin Wolfgang Winkler, “The 750 GeV Boson: Dawn of the Super-Hooperon”, in arXiv

Forms of hooperon

pluralhooperons

Origin of hooperon

From Hooper + -on, after Dan Hooper.

Questions about hooperon

What does hooperon mean?
Hooperon means a proposed WIMP dark matter particle.
What part of speech is hooperon?
Hooperon is a noun.
What is the plural of hooperon?
The plural of hooperon is hooperons.

Words near hooperon in the dictionary

  1. hooped
  2. hooper
  3. Hooper's paradox
  4. Hooperating
  5. Hooperatings
  6. hooperon
  7. hooperons
  8. hoopers
  9. Hoopes
  10. Hoopeses
  11. hoopie

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