majoron

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A hypothetical Goldstone boson.

Word forms

majoron majorons

Etymology

Named after Italian physicist Ettore Majorana + -on. Coined by Y. Chikashige, Rabindra Nath Mohapatra, and Roberto Peccei in 1980.

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