hooperon

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Hooper +‎ -on, after Dan Hooper.

Noun[edit]

hooperon (plural hooperons)

  1. (physics) A proposed WIMP dark matter particle
    • 2016, Manuel Ernst Krauss, Toby Opferkuch, Florian Staub, Martin Wolfgang Winkler, “The 750 GeV Boson: Dawn of the Super-Hooperon”, in arXiv‎[1]:
      A gauge singlet, the hooperon, induces the GeV gamma ray signal in the Fermi-LAT data through annihilation into vector-like leptons or quarks.
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