physics, the W and Z bosons are vector bosons that are together known as the weak bosons or more generally as the intermediate vector bosons. These elementary...
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In particle physics, W′ and Z′ bosons (or W-prime and Z-prime bosons) refer to hypothetical gauge bosons that arise from extensions of the electroweak...
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exchange of gauge bosons, usually as virtual particles. Photons, W and Z bosons, and gluons are gauge bosons. All known gauge bosons have a spin of 1;...
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particle physics, a vector boson is a boson whose spin equals one. Vector bosons that are also elementary particles are gauge bosons, the force carriers of...
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charge, and the W and Z bosons have no "flavour". Even-mass-number nuclides comprise 153 / 254 = 60% of all stable nuclides. They are bosons, i.e. they...
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physics, the X and Y bosons (sometimes collectively called "X bosons": 437 ) are hypothetical elementary particles analogous to the W and Z bosons, but corresponding...
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giving the weak force's W and Z bosons their mass, and doing it in a way that did not create Goldstone bosons. By the late 1950s and early 1960s, physicists...
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interaction, the carriers of the weak force are the massive gauge bosons called the W and Z bosons. The weak interaction is the only known interaction that does...
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experimentally. Just as the photon, Z boson and W± bosons are superpositions of the B0, W0, W1, and W2 fields, the photino, zino, and wino± are superpositions of...
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DØ experiment (section W and Z bosons)
Tevatron for the Higgs boson searches served as a springboard for subsequent LHC analyses. The properties of the W and Z bosons that transmit the weak...
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charge and therefore feel the strong interaction, and the leptons which do not. The elementary bosons comprise the gauge bosons (photon, W and Z, gluons)...
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Weak interaction (redirect from W boson exchange)
can exchange three types of force carriers, namely W+, W−, and Z bosons. The masses of these bosons are far greater than the mass of a proton or neutron...
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Standard Model (section Gauge bosons)
masses of the W and Z bosons, and the masses of the fermions, i.e. the quarks and leptons. After the neutral weak currents caused by Z boson exchange were...
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In particle and condensed matter physics, Goldstone bosons or Nambu–Goldstone bosons (NGBs) are bosons that appear necessarily in models exhibiting spontaneous...
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strong and weak forces, and their associated field bosons. For the gravitational and electromagnetic forces, the zero rest-mass of the associated boson particle...
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W and Z may refer to: W and Z bosons, or weak bosons, elementary particles W' and Z' bosons, hypothetical gauge bosons W and Z class destroyer, destroyers...
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Massless particle (section Standard Model gauge bosons)
bosons that are both believed to be massless; the other is the gluon (carrier of the strong force). The only other confirmed gauge bosons are the W and...
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Elementary particle (section Fundamental bosons)
Standard Model, vector (spin-1) bosons (gluons, photons, and the W and Z bosons) mediate forces, whereas the Higgs boson (spin-0) is responsible for the...
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CERN. The experiment ran from 1981 until 1990, and its main objective was to discover the W and Z bosons. UA2, together with the UA1 experiment, succeeded...
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Ghost (physics) (section Goldstone bosons)
bosons, or ghosts, are "eaten" by the three gauge bosons (W± and Z) corresponding to the three broken generators; this gives these three gauge bosons...
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Standard Model, there are also bosons, including the photons and gluons; W+, W−, and Z bosons; and the Higgs boson; and an open space left for the graviton...
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ordinary matter (leptons and quarks) are elementary fermions, while all the force carriers are elementary bosons. The W and Z bosons that mediate the weak...
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Electroweak interaction (redirect from B boson)
the W3 and B bosons coalesce into two different physical bosons with different masses – the Z0 boson, and the photon ( γ ), ( γ Z 0 ) = ( cos θ W sin ...
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electromagnetism and the weak force into the electroweak force, and led to the discovery of the W and Z bosons. The weak force is best known for its role in nuclear...
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the W and Z bosons (denoted as mW and mZ), m Z = m W cos θ w . {\displaystyle m_{\textsf {Z}}={\frac {m_{\textsf {W}}}{\,\cos \theta _{\textsf {w}}}}\...
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Particle physics (redirect from Particles and fields)
and electromagnetic fundamental interactions, using mediating gauge bosons. The species of gauge bosons are eight gluons, W− , W+ and Z bosons, and the...
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positron, and the creation of energetic photons: e− + e+ → γ + γ At high energies, other particles, such as B mesons or the W and Z bosons, can be...
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of an odd number of these, such as all baryons and many atoms and nuclei. Fermions differ from bosons, which obey Bose–Einstein statistics. Some fermions...
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elementary Higgs bosons to explain observed phenomena, technicolor models were introduced to dynamically generate masses for the W and Z bosons through new...
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the Z boson. The results from the Gargamelle collaboration made calculations of the mass of the W and Z bosons possible. It was predicted that the W boson...
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