sterile neutrino

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From sterile +‎ neutrino; from being a neutrino which is sterile, being non-interactive through the four forces of the Standard Model.

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sterile neutrino (plural sterile neutrinos)

  1. (particle physics) A type of neutrino (and potentially dark matter), that may be supermassive, which has right-handed chirality, and only interacts with other particles via gravity.

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