Meanings
nounhooperon (plural hooperons)
plural hooperons
- natural sciencesA proposed WIMP dark matter particle
A gauge singlet, the hooperon, induces the GeV gamma ray signal in the Fermi-LAT data through annihilation into vector-like leptons or quarks.
2016, Manuel Ernst Krauss, Toby Opferkuch, Florian Staub, Martin Wolfgang Winkler, “The 750 GeV Boson: Dawn of the Super-Hooperon”, in arXiv
Origin
From Hooper + -on, after Dan Hooper.
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