Cryptoquark
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A massless quark that is trapped by a superheavy particle.
"One can implement the "massless quark" solution in a phenomenologically acceptable way, by using a massless quark that is always confined within superheavy particles, and is therefore effectively superheavy: a cryptoquark."
Example
More examples"One can implement the "massless quark" solution in a phenomenologically acceptable way, by using a massless quark that is always confined within superheavy particles, and is therefore effectively superheavy: a cryptoquark."
Etymology
From crypto- + quark.
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