astroparticle physicsn.
/ˌastrə(ʊ)ˌpɑːtᵻkl ˈfɪzɪks/, U.S. /ˌæstrəˌpɑrdək(ə)l ˈfɪzɪks/ Astronomy.
The branch of physics concerned with subatomic particles of cosmic origin and their relevance to astrophysics and cosmology.
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1984 G. Steigman in Nature 31 May 474/3 In The Very Early Universe Hawking and his co-editors, G. W. Gibbons and S. T. C. Siklos, have provided the astro-particle physics community with a valuable work of reference.
1987 A. De Rujula et al. (title) A unified view of the macro- and the micro-cosmos: first international school on astroparticle physics.
1990 Nucl. Instr. & Methods Physics Res. A. 287 583 High on the list of astro-particle physics priorities is the detection of the nuclear recoil energy from..certain dark matter candidates.
2008 Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific 120 240/2 For reviews of inflation, see the more recent standard cosmology and astroparticle physics textbooks.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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