sterile neutrino

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Etymology

From sterile +‎ neutrino, from being a neutrino which is sterile, being noninteractive through the four forces of the Standard Model.

Noun

sterile neutrino (plural sterile neutrinos)

  1. (particle physics) A type of neutrino (and potentially dark matter), that may be supermassive, which has right-handed chirality, and only interacts with other particles by means of gravity.
    Synonyms: inert neutrino, right-handed neutrino
    Hypernyms: dark matter, neutrino
    Coordinate terms: axion, WIMP, wimpzilla

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