Martin Lewis Perl won the 1995 Nobel physics prize for discovering this type of lepton (3)

I believe the answer is:

tau

(Other definitions for tau that I've seen before include "Letter from Greece" , "A subatomic particle" , "Homeric character" , "Foreign character" , "Greek letter; cross" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times and The Sunday Times.

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