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mu-mesonnoun(dated) A muon (kind of subatomic particle).
negative muonnounan elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of 2 microsecond; decays to electron and neutrino and antineutrino

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mu-mesonnoun(dated) A muon (kind of subatomic particle).
negative muonnounan elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of 2 microsecond; decays to electron and neutrino and antineutrino
neutrinonounAn elementary particle that is classified as a lepton, and has an extremely small but nonzero mass and no electric charge. It interacts with the surroundings only via the weak force or gravitation, making it very difficult to detect.
neutrinosnounAn elementary particle that is classified as a lepton, and has an extremely small but nonzero mass and no electric charge. It interacts with the surroundings only via the weak force or gravitation, making it very difficult to detect.
muon neutrinonounA leptonic elementary particle having about half the mass of an electron and no charge.
muoniumnoun(physics, chemistry) An exotic atom formed when a positively charged muon (an anti-muon) and an electron are bound by their mutual electrical attraction; chemically equivalent to a light, short-lived isotope of hydrogen.
muononiumnoun(physics) an exotic atom formed when an antimuon and a muon are bound by their mutual electrical attraction
antimuonnoun(particle physics) A positively charged particle, the antiparticle corresponding to a muon.
true muoniumnoun(physics) Synonym of muononium.
antimuon neutrinonoun(particle physics) An antileptonic elementary particle that is the antiparticle of a muon neutrino
trimuonnoun(physics) A proposed particle composed of three muons.
dimuonnoun(physics) Used attributively to describe systems containing two muons
anti-muonnounAlternative form of antimuon. [(particle physics) A positively charged particle, the antiparticle corresponding to a muon.]
tauonnounAn unstable elementary particle which is a type of lepton, having a mass almost twice that of a proton, a negative charge, and a spin of ½; it decays into hadrons (usually pions) or other leptons, and neutrinos.
smuonnoun(physics) A hypothetical boson superpartner of a muon whose existence is implied by supersymmetry
mesonnoun(now specifically, particle physics) An elementary particle that is composed of a quark and an antiquark, such as a kaon or pion. (Mesons composed of rarer quarks are much heavier.)
tau neutrinonounA leptonic elementary particle having a mass 60 times that of the electron and no charge
antimuoniumnoun(particle physics) The antimatter form of muonium
mesoniumnoun(physics) Any exotic atom formed from a meson and an electron
leptonnoun(particle physics) An elementary particle that has a spin of 1/2 (i.e., is a fermion) and does not interact via the strong nuclear force; examples include the electron, the muon, the neutrino and the tauon.

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