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lepton number  

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  • In particle physics, lepton number (historically also called lepton charge) is a conserved quantum number representing the difference between the number of leptons and the number of antileptons in an elementary particle reaction. Lepton number is an additive quantum number, so its sum is preserved in interactions (as opposed to multiplicative quantum numbers such as parity, where the product is preserved instead). (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepton_number)

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