sterile neutrino

== English == === Etymology === From sterile +‎ neutrino, from being a neutrino which is sterile, being noninteractive through the four forces of the Standard Model. === Noun === sterile neutrino (plural sterile neutrinos) (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 by means of gravity. Synonyms: inert neutrino, right-handed neutrino Hypernyms: dark matter, neutrino Coordinate terms: axion, WIMP, wimpzilla ==== Antonyms ==== ==== Further reading ==== sterile neutrino on Wikipedia.Wikipedia