particle physics, a boson (/ˈboʊzɒn/ /ˈboʊsɒn/) is a subatomic particle whose spin quantum number has an integer value (0, 1, 2, ...). Bosons form one of the...
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gauge bosons had non-zero (rest) mass. Further, many promising solutions seemed to require the existence of extra particles known as Goldstone bosons. But...
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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 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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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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Elementary particle (section Fundamental bosons)
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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Confederation. Several Swedish national teams have annual training camps at Bosön. Bosöns sports training and education center, website. 59°22′52″N 18°10′53″E...
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List of particles (section Bosons)
6583755(23) MeV/c2. Bosons are one of the two fundamental particles having integral spinclasses of particles, the other being fermions. Bosons are characterized...
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implies that all bosons have an integer-valued spin. Scalar bosons are the subset of bosons with zero-valued spin. The name scalar boson arises from quantum...
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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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Standard Model (section Gauge bosons)
includes 4 kinds of gauge bosons of spin 1, with bosons being quantum particles containing an integer spin. The gauge bosons are defined as force carriers...
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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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identical bosons are scattered among N≫M2 modes of a linear interferometer with no two bosons in the same mode, then with high probability two bosons will...
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Weak interaction (redirect from W boson exchange)
three composite bosons are the W+ , W− , and Z0 bosons actually observed in the weak interaction. The fourth electroweak gauge boson is the photon (γ)...
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Massless particle (section Standard Model gauge bosons)
gauge 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...
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Bose–Einstein condensates, atomic bosons, and fermionic condensates. A composite particle containing an even number of fermions is a boson, since it has integer spin...
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The number of bosons within a composite particle made up of simple particles bound with a potential has no effect on whether it is a boson or a fermion...
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Electroweak interaction (redirect from B boson)
rise to the gauge bosons that mediate the electroweak interactions – the three W bosons of weak isospin (W1, W2, and W3), and the B boson of weak hypercharge...
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immediately. Like other massive particles (e.g. the top quark and W and Z bosons), Higgs bosons decay to other particles almost immediately, long before they can...
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perturbations beyond simply fermions exchanging bosons; these additional perturbations can involve bosons that exchange fermions, as well as the creation...
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The bosons are found by adding a partner to each of the 20 charged bosons (2 right-handed W bosons, 6 massive charged gluons and 12 X/Y type bosons) and...
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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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Chiral symmetry breaking (redirect from Pseudo-Goldstone boson)
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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Higgs mechanism (redirect from Higgs boson field)
generation mechanism of the property "mass" for gauge bosons. Without the Higgs mechanism, all bosons (one of the two classes of particles, the other being...
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Thomas Boson (1635–1719) was a writer in the Cornish language and the cousin of Nicholas and John Boson. Thomas helped William Gwavas in his Cornish language...
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up boson, bosonic, or bozon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A boson is a particle that has integer spin. Boson may also refer to: John Boson, woodworker...
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Exotic star (redirect from Boson star)
are bosons, and smaller amounts of various heavier nuclei, which can be either). For this type of star to exist, there must be a stable type of boson with...
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which do not. The elementary bosons comprise the gauge bosons (photon, W and Z, gluons) with spin 1, while the Higgs boson is the only elementary particle...
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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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