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cryptoquark

noun

cryptoquark

noun

Etymology From crypto- + quark.

1

Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics A massless quark that is trapped by a superheavy particle.

  • One can implement the "massless quark" solution in a phenomenologically acceptable way, by using a massless quark that is always confined within superheavy particles, and is therefore effectively superheavy: a cryptoquark.2016, Frank Wilczek, “Superheavy Light Quarks and the Strong P, T Problem”, in arXiv:

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