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...

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...

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;...

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...

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...

vector bosons, for instance any vector meson (quark and antiquark). During the 1970s and 1980s, intermediate vector bosons (the W and Z bosons, which...

the X and Y bosons (sometimes collectively called "X bosons": 437 ) are hypothetical elementary particles analogous to the W and Z bosons, but corresponding...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

also higgsinos. Note that in other SUSY models the zino ( Z͂ ) is the superpartner of the Z boson. Gauginos mix[clarification needed] with higgsinos, the...

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...

The longitudinal polarization components of the W and Z bosons correspond to the Goldstone bosons of the spontaneously broken part of the electroweak...

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...

glossaries of specific fields of engineering. Contents:  M N O P Q R S T U V W X-Z See also References External links Macaulay's method (The double integration...

mechanism" refers specifically to the generation of masses for the W±, and Z weak gauge bosons through electroweak symmetry breaking. The Large Hadron Collider...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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}}}}\...

{\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),}...

PMC 4742850. PMID 26843135. Shen, C.; Zhang, Z.; Duan, L.-M. (2014). "Scalable implementation of boson sampling with trapped ions". Phys. Rev. Lett....

reinterpretation of several known particles, including the photon, W and Z bosons, and gluon, as different states of a single particle field. However...

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 created. All processes...

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...

general and of the W and Z bosons in particular. This Higgs mechanism predicted the existence of a new particle, the Higgs boson, the detection of which...

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...