conservation of lepton number

noun Physics.

the principle that the total lepton number remains constant in any process involving elementary particles.

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conservation law , conservation of angular momentum, conservation of baryon number, conservation of charge, conservation of energy, conservation of lepton number, conservation of linear momentum, conservation of mass, conservation of momentum, conservation of parity, conservationist

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