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- noun physics Any of a class of hypothetical
bosons that would decay into alepton and aquark .
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So, if were seeing more leptons and missing pt than expected coming from decays, maybe its because they have some other intermediate decay channel, like a charged Higgs, or something totally weird like a half-quark/half-lepton thing called a leptoquark.
New Physics in Heavy Flavors: The plot thickens « Imaginary Potential 2008
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I wrote a story once about the apparent discovery of an peculiar high-energy physics particle, tentatively dubbed the leptoquark.
Communicating Science And Engineering In A Sound Bite World 1998
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