lepton era

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lepton era [′lep‚tän ‚ir·ə]

(astronomy)

The period in the early universe, following the hadron era, during which electrons, positrons, neutrinos, and photons were present in nearly equal numbers; roughly between 10^-4and 20 seconds after the big bang.

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