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leptoquark

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leptoquark

In physics, a hypothetical particle made up of a quark combined with a lepton, or a new particle created by their interaction.



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One possibility is that a positron may merge briefly with a quark, creating a particle that theorists call a leptoquark.
Crashing debut of an exotic heavy particle? by Peterson, Ivars / Science News
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.
Uniting fundamental forces in a new package by Peterson, Ivars / Science News
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