hooperon

English

Etymology

From Hooper +‎ -on, after Dan Hooper.

Noun

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.