leptonization

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noun

The creation of leptons (in stars etc)

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Meanings

nounleptonization (uncountable)
  1. uncountablenatural sciencesThe creation of leptons (in stars etc)

    Neutrino cooling in the dense midplane of the disk is stronger when using MC transport, leading to a globally higher cooling rate by a factor of a few and a larger leptonization rate by an order of magnitude.

    2015, S. Richers, D. Kasen, Evan O'Connor, Rodrigo Fernandez, Christian Ott, “Monte Carlo Neutrino Transport Through Remnant Disks from Neutron Star Mergers”, in arXiv

Origin

From lepton + -ization.

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