Etymology

majoron

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Today it means: A hypothetical Goldstone boson. Full definition →

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Named after Italian physicist Ettore Majorana + -on. Coined by Y. Chikashige, Rabindra Nath Mohapatra, and Roberto Peccei in 1980.

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