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, 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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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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Standard Model (section Gauge bosons)
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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Massless particle (section Standard Model gauge bosons)
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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Ghost (physics) (section Goldstone bosons)
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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Elementary particle (section Fundamental bosons)
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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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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Weak interaction (redirect from W boson exchange)
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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Charm quark (section Later and current research)
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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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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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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DØ experiment (section W and Z bosons)
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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