Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

familon

/ˈfæmɪlɒn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: familon
IPA: /ˈfæmɪlɒn/

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A hypothetical Nambu–Goldstone boson arising from the spontaneous breaking of a global family symmetry that distinguishes between generations of quarks and leptons.

Example Sentences

"It could be the axion associated with the Peccei-Quinn symmetry for strong CP invariance, or it could be the "familon'", a Goldstone boson that is associated with family symmetries and was discussed by Wilczek at the TSIMESS Workshop at Santa Cruz."
"For massive neutrinos that can decay by emission of a familon (f), a flavor-changing axion, the upper bound on the cosmic energy density of the decay products yields (1) an upper bound on the familon decay constant, and consequently (2) a lower bound on other f emission rates."
"Below the EWSB scale, the leading coupling of the familon to fermions becomes marginal after replacing the Higgs in (4.13) with its vacuum expectation value."

Etymology

From famille + -on, patterned after other particle names.

Inflected Forms

familons (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce familon?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈfæmɪlɒn/.
What does familon mean?: A hypothetical Nambu–Goldstone boson arising from the spontaneous breaking of a global family symmetry that distinguishes between generations of quarks and leptons.
Where does familon come from?: From famille + -on, patterned after other particle names.

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