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relaxion

relaxion noun: a form of axion proposed to account for cosmological relaxation of the electroweak interaction.

Noun

relaxion (plural relaxions)

  1. A form of axion proposed to account for cosmological relaxation of the electroweak interaction
    • We discuss several corollaries of this observation, including the interplay between the upper bound on the scale M and the order parameter #92;epsilon associated with the breaking of dS symmetry, and the possibility that the relaxion could play the role of a curvaton.2015, Subodh P. Patil, Pedro Schwaller, “Relaxing the Electroweak Scale: the Role of Broken dS Symmetry”, in arXiv

Forms of relaxion

pluralrelaxions

Origin of relaxion

Blend of relax + axion.

Questions about relaxion

What does relaxion mean?
Relaxion means a form of axion proposed to account for cosmological relaxation of the electroweak interaction.
What part of speech is relaxion?
Relaxion is a noun.
What is the plural of relaxion?
The plural of relaxion is relaxions.

Words near relaxion in the dictionary

  1. relaxin'
  2. relaxing
  3. relaxingly
  4. relaxings
  5. relaxins
  6. relaxion
  7. relaxions
  8. relaxivities
  9. relaxivity
  10. relaxographic
  11. relaxography

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