tau

heavy, negatively charged subatomic particle
Thing type_of_quantum_particle Q188392
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tau

Summary

tau is a type of quantum particle[1]. tau draws 497 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_quantum_particle category, ranking #25 of 125).[2]

Key Facts

  • tau is credited with the discovery of Martin Lewis Perl[3].
  • tau's instance of is recorded as type of quantum particle[4].
  • tau's follows is recorded as muon[5].
  • tau's GND ID is recorded as 4233855-4[6].
  • tau's subclass of is recorded as charged lepton[7].
  • tau's subclass of is recorded as elementary particle[8].
  • tau's interaction is recorded as gravity[9].
  • tau's interaction is recorded as electromagnetic interaction[10].
  • tau's interaction is recorded as weak interaction[11].
  • tau's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01wxph[12].
  • tau's ChEBI ID is recorded as 36355[13].
  • tau's spin quantum number is recorded as {'amount': '+0.5'}[14].
  • tau's Monte Carlo Particle Number is recorded as 15[15].
  • tau's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/tau-subatomic-particle[16].
  • tau's different from is recorded as Tourist Association of Ukraine[17].
  • tau's different from is recorded as tau neutrino[18].
  • tau's mass is recorded as {'unit': 'Q108888186', 'amount': '+1776820000'}[19].
  • tau's mass is recorded as {'unit': 'Q108888206', 'amount': '+1776.86'}[20].
  • tau's half-life is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1777507', 'amount': '+201.4'}[21].
  • tau's antiparticle is recorded as antitau[22].
  • tau's electric charge is recorded as {'unit': 'Q2101', 'amount': '-1'}[23].
  • tau's has superpartner is recorded as stauon[24].
  • tau's mean lifetime is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11574', 'amount': '+0.0000000000002903'}[25].
  • tau's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 4183858[26].
  • tau's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as tau-lepton[27].

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Works and Contributions

tau is credited with the discovery of Martin Lewis Perl[3].

Why It Matters

tau draws 497 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_quantum_particle category, ranking #25 of 125).[2] tau has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] tau is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Review of Particle Physics. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . pdg.lbl.gov. pdg.lbl.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Review of Particle Physics. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . pdg.lbl.gov. pdg.lbl.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Review of Particle Physics. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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