• 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...
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    elementary bosons: One scalar boson (spin = 0) H0 Higgs boson – the particle that contributes to the phenomenon of mass via the Higgs mechanism Four vector bosons...
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    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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    The Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the quantum excitation...
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    the Higgs boson has spin zero and the hypothetical graviton has a spin of 2. Therefore, all known gauge bosons are vector bosons. Gauge bosons are different...
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    A scalar boson is a boson whose spin equals zero. A boson is a particle whose wave function is symmetric under particle exchange and therefore follows...
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  • series Vector boson, a boson with the spin quantum number equal to 1 Vector measure, a function defined on a family of sets and taking vector values satisfying...
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    the massless bosonic fields in string theory.) Scalar field theory Vector boson Vector-valued function Apostol, Tom (1969). Calculus. Vol. II (2nd ed.)...
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  • 56:151–81. Crowe, Michael J. (1967). A History of Vector Analysis : The Evolution of the Idea of a Vectorial System (reprint ed.). Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-67910-5...
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    meson θ meson List of mesons Vector meson dominance Vector boson Nichitiu, F. (November 2, 1995). "An Introduction to the Vector Meson" (PDF). Retrieved June...
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    et al. (2021). "GW190521 as a merger of Proca stars: A potential new vector Boson of 8.7×10−13 eV". Physical Review Letters. 126 (8): 081101. arXiv:2009...
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    necessarily, half-integer spin fermions) exchange integer-spin, force-carrying bosons. The fermions involved in such exchanges can be either elementary (e.g....
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    Higgs boson was a 40-year effort by physicists to prove the existence or non-existence of the Higgs boson, first theorised in the 1960s. The Higgs boson was...
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  • in the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model, which is a solvable theory of composite bosons that exhibits dynamical spontaneous chiral symmetry when a 4-fermion coupling...
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    complex two dimensional vector space. Rotating the coordinates so that the second basis vector points in the direction of the Higgs boson makes the vacuum expectation...
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    Force (redirect from Force vector)
    Because the magnitude and direction of a force are both important, force is a vector quantity. The SI unit of force is the newton (N), and force is often represented...
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  • Photon (category Bosons)
    the speed of light measured in vacuum. The photon belongs to the class of boson particles. As with other elementary particles, photons are best explained...
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    of a massive vector field. Hence, Goldstone's original scalar doublet, the massive spin-zero particle, was proposed as the Higgs boson, and is a key...
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    particles—twelve fermions and five bosons. As a consequence of flavor and color combinations and antimatter, the fermions and bosons are known to have 48 and 13...
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    {L}}_{g}} term describes the interaction between the three W vector bosons and the B vector boson, L g = − 1 4 W a μ ν W μ ν a − 1 4 B μ ν B μ ν , {\displaystyle...
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    Gluon (category Bosons)
    acting as the exchange particle for the interaction. Gluons are massless vector bosons, thereby having a spin of 1. Through the strong interaction, gluons...
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  • Graviton (category Bosons)
    appears to propagate at the speed of light. The graviton must be a spin-2 boson because the source of gravitation is the stress–energy tensor, a second-order...
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  • spin while bosons have integer spin. All the particles of the Standard Model have been experimentally observed, including the Higgs boson in 2012. Many...
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  • four-dimensional spacetime. Momentum is a vector in three dimensions; similarly four-momentum is a four-vector in spacetime. The contravariant four-momentum...
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  • quantities, such as weak isospin, weak hypercharge, or the vector coupling of a fermion to the Z boson (i.e. the coupling strength of weak neutral currents)...
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  • massless bosons appear, corresponding to the remaining symmetry. This is called the Goldstone phenomenon and the bosons are called Goldstone bosons. The SU(Nf) × SU(Nf)...
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    through radiation of a Higgs by a produced virtual vector boson or annihilation of two such vector bosons. Pair production Creation and annihilation operators...
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    Particles with an integer spin (bosons) are not subject to the Pauli exclusion principle. Any number of identical bosons can occupy the same quantum state...
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  • Phonon (category Bosons)
    due to the viscous forces at the liquid–solid interface. Physics portal Boson Brillouin scattering Fracton Linear elasticity Mechanical wave Phonon scattering...
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    the proton–neutron and electron–antineutrino is mediated by a virtual W− boson, of which the Fermi theory is the low-energy effective field theory. According...
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