English Explanatory Dictionary

familon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A hypothetical Nambu–Goldstone boson arising from the spontaneous breaking of a global family symmetry that distinguishes between generations of quarks and leptons.

Pronunciation

/ˈfæmɪlɒn/

Word forms

familon familons

Etymology

From famille + -on, patterned after other particle names.

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