Icon class icon_class fas fa-quote-left icon_class_computed fas fa-quote-left Related content Mass of charged leptons and decay (Part 1) Source Wikipedia Copyright information Text from Wikipedia and Wiktionary web pages quoted for educational purposes is subject to the Wikipedia Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike Licence Snippet kind INFO Previous snippet Full quote Electrons have the least mass of all the charged leptons. Next snippet The heavier muons and taus will rapidly change into electrons and neutrinos through a process of particle decay: the transformation from a higher mass state to a lower mass state. Related snippets Related snippets (backlinks) Thus electrons are stable and the most common charged lepton in the universe, whereas muons and taus can only be produced in high energy collisions (such as those involving cosmic rays and those carried out in particle accelerators). Leptons have various intrinsic properties, including electric charge, spin, and mass. Unlike quarks, however, leptons are not subject to the strong interaction, but they are subject to the other three fundamental interactions: gravitation, the weak interaction, and to electromagnetism ... electromagnetism ... is proportional to charge, and is thus zero for the electrically neutral neutrinos. For every lepton flavor, there is a corresponding type of antiparticle, known as an antilepton, that differs from the lepton only in that some of its properties have equal magnitude but opposite sign. According to certain theories, neutrinos may be their own antiparticle. It is not currently known whether this is the case. Visit also Visit also (backlinks) Flags
