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Antilepton

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The antiparticle of a lepton. particle

    "When a W⁺ boson decays into a positron and a neutrino, lepton number is conserved because the W⁺ boson is a non-lepton, the neutrino is a lepton, and the positron is an antilepton. Likewise, when a W⁻ boson decays into an electron and an antineutrino, lepton number is conserved because the W⁻ boson is a non-lepton, the electron is a lepton, and the antineutrino is an antilepton."

  2. 2
    the antiparticle of a lepton wordnet

Etymology

From anti- + lepton.

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