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Noun: tau neutrino
  1. The neutrino associated with the tau lepton.
    "When the third type of lepton, the tau, was discovered in 1975 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, it too was expected to have an associated neutrino (the tau neutrino).";
    - tauon neutrino

Derived forms: tau neutrinos

Type of: neutrino

Encyclopedia: Tau neutrino