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    particle physics, the electroweak interaction or electroweak force is the unified description of two of the fundamental interactions of nature: electromagnetism...
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    the strong interaction and the electroweak interaction as aspects of a single force, similarly to how the electromagnetic and weak interactions were unified...
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    a single combined electroweak interaction. GUT models predict that at even higher energy, the strong and electroweak interactions will unify into one...
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    and Abdus Salam incorporated the Higgs mechanism into Glashow's electroweak interaction, giving it its modern form. In 1970, Sheldon Glashow, John Iliopoulos...
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    electromagnetic force and the weak interaction by showing them to be two aspects of a single force, now termed the electroweak force. The existence of the W...
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  • carriers of the weak interaction are the massive W and Z bosons. Electroweak theory (EWT) covers both electromagnetism and the weak interaction. At the high temperatures...
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    massless photon mediates the electromagnetic interaction. These four gauge bosons form the electroweak interaction among elementary particles. Although the...
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  • breaking with the Higgs mechanism. This unified theory modelled the electroweak interaction as a force mediated by four particles: the photon for the electromagnetic...
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    after electroweak symmetry breaking when the fundamental interactions of gravitation, electromagnetism, the strong interaction and the weak interaction had...
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    expanding bubble of true vacuum. The stability criteria for the electroweak interaction was first formulated in 1979 as a function of the masses of the...
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    electronuclear interaction, but was still high enough for electromagnetism and the weak interaction to remain merged into a single electroweak interaction above...
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    toward the unification of electromagnetism and the weak force into the electroweak force, and led to the discovery of the W and Z bosons. The weak force...
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    Higgs boson (category Electroweak theory)
    otherwise empty space), which breaks the weak isospin symmetry of the electroweak interaction and, via the Higgs mechanism, gives a rest mass to all massive...
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    Model combines the strong interaction with the unified electroweak interaction (unifying the weak and electromagnetic interaction) through the symmetry group...
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  • organic chemist and polymer scientist Naveed Zaidi. Discovery of electroweak interaction by Abdus Salam, along with two Americans Sheldon Glashow and Steven...
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    Martinus J. G. Veltman "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions". His work concentrates on gauge theory, black holes, quantum gravity...
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  • electromagnetism; the latter has been further unified with the concept of electroweak interaction. This process of "unifying" forces continues today, with the ultimate...
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    "unbroken" electroweak Lagrangian from which one arrives at the field equations (see the article Electroweak interaction for more details). The electroweak theory...
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    a nearby charged particle, such as a nucleus. In the theory of electroweak interaction, the left-handed component of electron's wavefunction forms a weak...
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    weak nuclear force are now considered to be two aspects of the electroweak interaction. Physics hopes to find an ultimate reason (theory of everything)...
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    electromagnetic interactions and the weak interactions are unified (at very high energies only) in the theory of the electroweak interaction. The Standard...
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    the weak isospin coupling of the electroweak force tend to decrease, and the weak hypercharge coupling of the electroweak force tends to increase. At the...
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    Big Bang, when the preceding electroweak epoch ended as the electroweak interaction separated into the weak interaction and electromagnetism. During the...
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    physicist Abdus Salam won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the electroweak interaction. Pakistani scientists have made notable contributions in mathematics...
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  • or more additional right-handed neutrino fields inert under the electroweak interaction, and the existence of a very large mass scale. This allows the...
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    Weinberg angle (category Electroweak theory)
    Weinberg–Salam theory (by Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam) of the electroweak interaction, part of the Standard Model of particle physics, and is usually...
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  • charge of −⁠1/3⁠ e. All quarks are described in a similar way by electroweak interaction and quantum chromodynamics, but the bottom quark has exceptionally...
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  • the number of active neutrino types required to ensure that the electroweak interaction is free of anomalies, which must be exactly 3: the number of charged...
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    theory, which drives the vacuum to a symmetry-broken phase (i.e, electroweak interactions.) In dynamical gauge symmetry breaking, however, no unstable Higgs...
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    force are unified as a single interaction called the electroweak interaction. Most of the forces involved in interactions between atoms are explained by...
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