Meanings
nouncryptoquark (plural cryptoquarks)
plural cryptoquarks
- natural sciencesA 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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