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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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  • In particle physics, Wand Zbosons (or W-prime and Z-prime bosons) refer to hypothetical gauge bosons that arise from extensions of the electroweak...
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    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 and therefore...
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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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  • physics, 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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    masses of the W and Z bosons, and the masses of the fermions, i.e. the quarks and leptons. After the neutral weak currents caused by Z boson exchange were...
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    charge, 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...
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    charge and therefore feel the strong interaction, and the leptons which do not. The elementary bosons comprise the gauge bosons (photon, W and Z, gluons)...
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  • hadrons, and hence their presumed lack of rest mass cannot be confirmed by any feasible experiment. The only other observed gauge bosons are the W and Z bosons...
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    weak force's W and Z bosons their mass, and doing it in a way that did not imply the existence of Goldstone bosons. By the late 1950s and early 1960s,...
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  • interaction, the carriers of the weak force are the massive gauge bosons called the W and Z bosons. The weak interaction is the only known interaction that does...
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    bosons, or ghosts, are "eaten" by the three gauge bosons (W± and Z) corresponding to the three broken generators; this gives these three gauge bosons...
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    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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  • WZ (redirect from W Z)
    a Korean online gaming developer, which uses the file extension .wZ W and Z bosons in particle physics This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    elementary Higgs bosons to explain observed phenomena, technicolor models were introduced to dynamically generate masses for the W and Z bosons through new...
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  • Standard Model, there are also bosons, including the photons and gluons; W+, W−, and Z bosons; and the Higgs boson; and an open space left for the graviton...
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  • superpositions of the superpartners of neutral Standard Model bosons: neutral Higgs boson, Z boson and photon. The lightest neutralino is a leading candidate...
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    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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    J/psi meson and the charmed baryons created in particle accelerator collisions. Several bosons, including the W and Z bosons and the Higgs boson, can decay...
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    CERN. The experiment ran from 1981 until 1990, and its main objective was to discover the W and Z bosons. UA2, together with the UA1 experiment, succeeded...
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    electromagnetism and the weak force into the electroweak force, and led to the discovery of the W and Z bosons. The weak force is best known for its role in nuclear...
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  • W and Z may refer to: W and Z bosons, or weak bosons, elementary particles W' and Z' bosons, hypothetical gauge bosons W and Z class destroyer, destroyers...
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    positron, and the 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...
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    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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  • strong and weak forces, and their associated field bosons. For the gravitational and electromagnetic forces, the zero rest-mass of the associated boson particle...
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  • 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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  • neutralinos typically decay through a neutral Z boson to a lighter neutralino or through a charged W boson to a light chargino: The mass splittings between...
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    ordinary matter (leptons and quarks) are elementary fermions, while all the force carriers are elementary bosons. The W and Z bosons that mediate the weak...
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    SLAC and DESY (in Hamburg) came up empty-handed. When, in the early 1980s, the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at CERN discovered the W boson and the Z boson...
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    Tevatron for the Higgs boson searches served as a springboard for subsequent LHC analyses. The properties of the W and Z bosons that transmit the weak...
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