Axion
Origin
Named by Frank Wilczek after Axion, a brand of laundry detergent, for its -on suffix and the notion that the new particle could "clean up" a problem in physics.
Noun
axion
(plural axions)- (physics) a hypothetical subatomic particle postulated to explain some symmetry problems arising in the strong nuclear force.
- 2000 Beam Line (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)The axion is a candidate particle for the cold dark matter that constitutes a large fraction of the mass of the Universe.