In theoretical physics, unparticle physics is a speculative theory that conjectures matter that cannot be explained in terms of particles using the Standard Model of particle physics, because its components are scale invariant.
Howard Georgi proposed this theory in the spring of 2007 in the papers Unparticle Physics and Another Odd Thing About Unparticle Physics. His papers were followed by a steady flow of further investigations by many other researchers into the properties and phenomenology of unparticle physics and its potential impact on particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology, CP violation, lepton flavour violation, muon decay, neutrino oscillations, and supersymmetry.
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