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    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...
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    physics theory. In the Standard Model, the Higgs particle is a massive scalar boson with zero spin, even (positive) parity, no electric charge, and no colour...
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    from the other kinds of bosons: first, fundamental scalar bosons (the Higgs boson); second, mesons, which are composite bosons, made of quarks; third,...
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  • like a scalar, except that it changes sign under a parity inversion Scalar (computing), any non-composite value Scalar boson, in physics, a boson subatomic...
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    Model of Particle Physics there are five elementary bosons: One scalar boson (spin = 0) H0 Higgs boson – the particle that contributes to the phenomenon...
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    Higgs boson was first detected at CERN in 2012. In scalar theories of gravitation scalar fields are used to describe the gravitational field. Scalar–tensor...
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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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    particles—twelve fermions and five bosons. As a consequence of flavor and color combinations and antimatter, the fermions and bosons are known to have 48 and 13...
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  • is not exact) scalar particles appear in the spectrum of possible excitations. There is one scalar particle—called a Nambu–Goldstone boson—for each generator...
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    supersymmetry (SUSY). It is a sfermion, which means it is a spin-0 boson (scalar boson). While the top quark is the heaviest known quark, the stop squark...
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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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    field. Hence, Goldstone's original scalar doublet, the massive spin-zero particle, was proposed as the Higgs boson, and is a key building block in the...
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  • fermions (made of 6 quarks and 6 leptons) and 13 bosons (made of 12 gauge bosons and 1 scalar boson). The atomic number of manganese. The average percentage...
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    Higgs boson was a 40-year effort by physicists to prove the existence or non-existence of the Higgs boson, first theorised in the 1960s. The Higgs boson was...
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  • Massless free scalar bosons are a family of two-dimensional conformal field theories, whose symmetry is described by an abelian affine Lie algebra. Since...
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  • spin-zero quantum fields (known as scalar bosons), such as the Higgs field. These fields are the subject of scalar field theory. A vector field is an...
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  • List of mesons Pseudovector meson Scalar boson Ishida, M.Y. (1998). "Existence of σ(600)-particle and new chiral scalar nonet". Nuclear Physics A. 629 (1–2)...
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    degree of freedom becomes a new scalar particle: the Higgs boson. The components that do not mix with Goldstone bosons form a massless photon. The gauge...
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  • Exotic star (redirect from Boson star)
    enormous "boson stars." The compact boson stars and boson shells are often studied involving fields like the massive (or massless) complex scalar fields...
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  • corresponding neutrinos vector bosons – the photon, W and Z bosons, gluons scalar boson – the Higgs boson second-order tensor boson – the hypothetical graviton...
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    field A(x) are called gauge bosons. The interpretation of the interaction Lagrangian in quantum field theory is of scalar bosons interacting by the exchange...
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    gauge bosons – each similar to the photon – forming a complex scalar Higgs field doublet. Likewise, there are four massless electroweak bosons. However...
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  • coupling constant, and ƛi = ℏ/mic is the reduced Compton wavelength. A scalar boson produces a universally attractive potential, whereas a vector attracts...
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  • attributes of a Higgs boson. This also means it is the first elementary scalar particle discovered in nature. Elementary bosons responsible for the four...
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  • potential can be described equivalently as exchange of vector and/or scalar bosons, that is a predicting as yet undetected new particles. However, many...
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    satisfy Pauli's exclusion principle the particle must be bosons especially spin zero (scalar) particles. hence these ultra-light dark matter would be...
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  • existence of a massive scalar boson was not seen as important; only Higgs directly addressed it.: 154, 166, 175 ) In the paper by GHK the boson is massless and...
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    (which are either scalar or pseudo-scalar) or J = 2 (tensor). Triple-gluon glueballs can have total angular momentum J = 1 (vector boson) or 3 (third-order...
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    the fundamental set of particles – the leptons, quarks, gauge bosons and the Higgs boson. The Standard Model is renormalizable and mathematically self-consistent...
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    these, such as all baryons and many atoms and nuclei. Fermions differ from bosons, which obey Bose–Einstein statistics. Some fermions are elementary particles...
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