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leptoquark

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leptoquark [′lep·tō‚kwärk]
(particle physics)
A hypothetical elementary particle; a colored technipion with a mass of the order of 100-300 GeV, which would decay into a lepton plus a quark.


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One possibility is that a positron may merge briefly with a quark, creating a particle that theorists call a leptoquark.
If leptoquarks are light enough, physicists should be able to detect them when experiments begin next year at the Hadron-Electron-Ring Accelerator in Hamburg, Germany.
 
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