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Encyclopedia: W and Z bosons

In physics, the W and Z bosons are the elementary particles that mediate the weak force. Their discovery at CERN in 1983 has been heralded as a major success for the Standard Model of particle physics.

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How to say "W and Z bosons" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	W 及 Z 玻色子
	(Japanese)	Zボソン
	(German)	Z-Boson
	(Spanish)	Bosones W y Z
	(French)	Boson Z
	(Italian)	Bosoni W e Z

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Peter Higgs

elementary particles in general and of the W and Z bosons in particular. This so-called Higgs mechanism predicts the existence of a new particle, the Higgs boson. Although this particle has not turned up... theoretical physics at the University of Edinburgh and is now an emeritus professor. Higgs is best known for...

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Abdus Salam

led to the discovery of the W and Z bosons. Director of the International Centre for Theoretical... his work in electroweak theory which is the mathematical and conceptual synthesis of the electromagnetic and weak interactions - the latest stage reached until now on the path towards the unification...

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Boson

light. Examples of bosons: photons, which mediate the electromagnetic force W and Z bosons, which... property for bosons, which are free to (and indeed, other things being equal, tend to) crowd into the same... properties of liquid Helium-4 and superconductors and the possibility of bosons to form Bose...

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Flavor (particle physics)

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Force carrier

interactions. Photons are the carrier particles of electromagnetic interactions. W and Z bosons are the... and electromagnetic fundamental forces. In such theories, each type of interaction has a... described in terms of static force fields and exchanges of force carrier particles between the affected...

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Baryon number

photon, and the W and Z bosons. The baryon number is nearly conserved in all interactions of the.... Another possibility is the exotic pentaquark, consisting of 4 quarks and 1 anti-quark. Thus, quarks are always present in threes, if antiquarks are counted as "negative quarks", and one might as well...

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Electroweak force

corresponding gauge bosons are the photon of electromagnetism and the W and Z bosons of the weak force... boson(it is an eigenstate of both Y and I 3, so the coefficients may be taken as -I 3 and Y): U(1) em... forces of nature: electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force. Although these two forces appear very...

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Gauge boson

from hitherto massless particles. Photons and gluons are massless gauge bosons, whereas the W and Z... bosons, corresponding to the electromagnetic, strong and weak forces. Photons are gauge bosons of.... At a naive theoretical level therefore, all gauge bosons are required to massless, and the forces...

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Spontaneous symmetry breaking

Higgs boson and is responsible for the masses of the W and Z bosons. The broader concept In theories... into kinetic and potential terms L = ∂ μ φ×∂ μ φ - V (φ) It is in this potential term (V(�... states) given by for any real θ between 0 and 2π. The system also has an unstable vacuum state...

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List of physics topics R-Z

W and Z bosons W and Z bosons W boson W and Z bosons Wallis, John Wallis John Walton, Ernest Thomas...A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z << List of physics topics M-Q R Rabi, Isidor... theory Yang-Mills theory Young, Thomas Thomas Young Yukawa, Hideki Hideki Yukawa Z Z boson Z boson...

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