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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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 have...
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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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unknown was 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...
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vector bosons, for instance any vector meson (quark and antiquark). During the 1970s and 1980s, intermediate vector bosons (the W and Z bosons, which...
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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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Electroweak interaction (redirect from B boson)
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 θ W − sin...
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Standard Model (section Gauge bosons)
Model has predicted various properties of weak neutral currents and the W and Z bosons with great accuracy. Although the Standard Model is believed to be theoretically...
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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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Elementary particle (section Higgs boson)
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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rest mass and cannot overlap or combine which are called fermions. The W and Z bosons, however, are an exception to this rule and have relatively large rest...
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atomic nuclei. The weak interaction is carried by particles called W and Z bosons, and also acts on the nucleus of atoms, mediating radioactive decay...
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Particle physics (section Bosons)
fundamental interactions, using mediating gauge bosons. The species of gauge bosons are eight gluons, W− , W+ and Z bosons, and the photon. The Standard Model also...
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neutral (Z) boson: Z = cos θ W W 3 − sin θ W B {\displaystyle Z=\cos \theta _{\rm {W}}W_{3}-\sin \theta _{\rm {W}}B} The massless neutral boson: A = sin...
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Higgs mechanism (redirect from Higgs boson field)
Higgs field mix with the three W and Z bosons ( W+ , W− and Z0 ), and are only observable as components of these weak bosons, which are made massive by their...
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The longitudinal polarization components of the W and Z bosons correspond to the Goldstone bosons of the spontaneously broken part of the electroweak...
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are all bosons with spin 1. They include the photon, which carries the electromagnetic force, the gluon (strong force), and the W and Z bosons (weak force)...
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negatively charged (−1/3 e) down quark to the positively charged (+2/3 e) up quark by emission of a W− boson; the W− boson subsequently decays into...
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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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List of particles (section Bosons)
of which have been confirmed experimentally. Just as the photon, Z boson and W± bosons are superpositions of the B0, W0, W1, and W2 fields, the photino...
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1980s, the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at CERN discovered the W boson and the Z boson, it was again felt that the discovery of the top was imminent....
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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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almost immediately. Like other massive particles (e.g. the top quark and W and Z bosons), Higgs bosons decay to other particles almost immediately, long...
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Bose–Einstein statistics (redirect from B–E statistics)
{\displaystyle g=3} w ( 4 , 3 ) = w ( 4 , 2 ) + w ( 3 , 2 ) + w ( 2 , 2 ) + w ( 1 , 2 ) + w ( 0 , 2 ) , {\displaystyle w(4,3)=w(4,2)+w(3,2)+w(2,2)+w(1,2)+w(0,2),}...
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temperatures.: 199 In the Standard Model of elementary particles, the W and Z bosons, which would otherwise be massless as a result of gauge symmetry, acquire...
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created in particle accelerator collisions. Several bosons, including the W and Z bosons and the Higgs boson, can decay into charm quarks. All charm quarks...
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reinterpretation of several known particles, including the photon, W and Z bosons, and gluon, as different states of a single particle field. However...
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into an up quark by emitting a virtual W− boson, transforming the neutron into a proton ( u u d ). The W− boson then decays into an electron and an electron...
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