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115 relations: Abductive reasoning, Abdus Salam, Antiparticle, Ashutosh Kotwal, Associated Press, ATLAS experiment, Atom, Atomic nucleus, Baryon number, Beta decay, Beta particle, Boson, Branching fraction, Bubble chamber, Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix, Carlo Rubbia, CERN, Charge (physics), Charm (quantum number), Chirality (physics), Cobalt-60, Color charge, Color confinement, Compact Muon Solenoid, Coupling constant, Down quark, Duke University, Elastic scattering, Electric charge, Electromagnetism, Electroweak interaction, Elementary charge, Elementary particle, Fermi's interaction, Fermilab, Fermion, Feynman diagram, Flavor-changing neutral current, Flavour (particle physics), Force carrier, Frank Wilczek, Gargamelle, Gauge boson, Gauge theory, Gluon, Goldstone boson, Grand Unified Theory, Graviton, Gravity, Hadron, ... Expand index (65 more) »
- Bosons
- Electroweak theory
- Elementary particles
- Force carriers
- Standard Model
- Subatomic particles with spin 1
Abductive reasoning
Abductive reasoning (also called abduction,For example: abductive inference, or retroduction) is a form of logical inference that seeks the simplest and most likely conclusion from a set of observations.
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Abdus Salam
Mohammad Abdus Salam Salam adopted the forename "Mohammad" in 1974 in response to the anti-Ahmadiyya decrees in Pakistan, similarly he grew his beard.
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Antiparticle
In particle physics, every type of particle of "ordinary" matter (as opposed to antimatter) is associated with an antiparticle with the same mass but with opposite physical charges (such as electric charge).
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Ashutosh Kotwal
Ashutosh Vijay Kotwal (born December 20, 1965) is an American particle physicist of Indian origin.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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ATLAS experiment
ATLAS is the largest general-purpose particle detector experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland.
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Atom
Atoms are the basic particles of the chemical elements.
Atomic nucleus
The atomic nucleus is the small, dense region consisting of protons and neutrons at the center of an atom, discovered in 1911 by Ernest Rutherford based on the 1909 Geiger–Marsden gold foil experiment.
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Baryon number
In particle physics, the baryon number is a strictly conserved additive quantum number of a system. W and Z bosons and baryon number are Standard Model.
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Beta decay
In nuclear physics, beta decay (β-decay) is a type of radioactive decay in which an atomic nucleus emits a beta particle (fast energetic electron or positron), transforming into an isobar of that nuclide.
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Beta particle
A beta particle, also called beta ray or beta radiation (symbol β), is a high-energy, high-speed electron or positron emitted by the radioactive decay of an atomic nucleus during the process of beta decay.
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Boson
In particle physics, a boson is a subatomic particle whose spin quantum number has an integer value (0, 1, 2,...). Bosons form one of the two fundamental classes of subatomic particle, the other being fermions, which have odd half-integer spin (...). Every observed subatomic particle is either a boson or a fermion. W and Z bosons and boson are bosons.
Branching fraction
In particle physics and nuclear physics, the branching fraction (or branching ratio) for a decay is the fraction of particles which decay by an individual decay mode or with respect to the total number of particles which decay.
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Bubble chamber
A bubble chamber is a vessel filled with a superheated transparent liquid (most often liquid hydrogen) used to detect electrically charged particles moving through it.
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Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix
In the Standard Model of particle physics, the Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix, CKM matrix, quark mixing matrix, or KM matrix is a unitary matrix which contains information on the strength of the flavour-changing weak interaction. W and Z bosons and Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix are electroweak theory and Standard Model.
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Carlo Rubbia
Carlo Rubbia (born 31 March 1934) is an Italian particle physicist and inventor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer for work leading to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN.
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CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (Conseil européen pour la Recherche nucléaire), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.
Charge (physics)
In physics, a charge is any of many different quantities, such as the electric charge in electromagnetism or the color charge in quantum chromodynamics.
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Charm (quantum number)
Charm (symbol C) is a flavour quantum number representing the difference between the number of charm quarks and charm antiquarks that are present in a particle: By convention, the sign of flavour quantum numbers agree with the sign of the electric charge carried by the quarks of corresponding flavour.
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Chirality (physics)
A chiral phenomenon is one that is not identical to its mirror image (see the article on mathematical chirality).
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Cobalt-60
Cobalt-60 (Co) is a synthetic radioactive isotope of cobalt with a half-life of 5.2714 years.
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Color charge
Color charge is a property of quarks and gluons that is related to the particles' strong interactions in the theory of quantum chromodynamics (QCD).
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Color confinement
In quantum chromodynamics (QCD), color confinement, often simply called confinement, is the phenomenon that color-charged particles (such as quarks and gluons) cannot be isolated, and therefore cannot be directly observed in normal conditions below the Hagedorn temperature of approximately 2 terakelvin (corresponding to energies of approximately 130–140 MeV per particle).
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Compact Muon Solenoid
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment is one of two large general-purpose particle physics detectors built on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland and France.
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Coupling constant
In physics, a coupling constant or gauge coupling parameter (or, more simply, a coupling), is a number that determines the strength of the force exerted in an interaction.
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Down quark
The down quark (symbol: d) is a type of elementary particle, and a major constituent of matter. W and Z bosons and down quark are elementary particles.
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Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States.
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Elastic scattering
Elastic scattering is a form of particle scattering in scattering theory, nuclear physics and particle physics.
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Electric charge
Electric charge (symbol q, sometimes Q) is the physical property of matter that causes it to experience a force when placed in an electromagnetic field.
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Electromagnetism
In physics, electromagnetism is an interaction that occurs between particles with electric charge via electromagnetic fields.
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Electroweak interaction
In particle physics, the electroweak interaction or electroweak force is the unified description of two of the four known fundamental interactions of nature: electromagnetism (electromagnetic interaction) and the weak interaction. W and Z bosons and electroweak interaction are electroweak theory.
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Elementary charge
The elementary charge, usually denoted by, is a fundamental physical constant, defined as the electric charge carried by a single proton or, equivalently, the magnitude of the negative electric charge carried by a single electron, which has charge −1.
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Elementary particle
In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a subatomic particle that is not composed of other particles. W and Z bosons and elementary particle are elementary particles.
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Fermi's interaction
In particle physics, Fermi's interaction (also the Fermi theory of beta decay or the Fermi four-fermion interaction) is an explanation of the beta decay, proposed by Enrico Fermi in 1933.
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Fermilab
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located in Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics.
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Fermion
In particle physics, a fermion is a particle that follows Fermi–Dirac statistics.
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Feynman diagram
In theoretical physics, a Feynman diagram is a pictorial representation of the mathematical expressions describing the behavior and interaction of subatomic particles.
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Flavor-changing neutral current
In particle physics, flavor-changing neutral currents or flavour-changing neutral currents (FCNCs) are hypothetical interactions that change the flavor of a fermion without altering its electric charge. W and Z bosons and flavor-changing neutral current are Standard Model.
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Flavour (particle physics)
In particle physics, flavour or flavor refers to the species of an elementary particle. W and Z bosons and flavour (particle physics) are Standard Model.
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Force carrier
In quantum field theory, a force carrier (also known as a messenger particle, intermediate particle, or exchange particle) is a type of particle that gives rise to forces between other particles.
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Frank Wilczek
Frank Anthony Wilczek (or; born May 15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and Nobel laureate.
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Gargamelle
Gargamelle was a heavy liquid bubble chamber detector in operation at CERN between 1970 and 1979.
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Gauge boson
In particle physics, a gauge boson is a bosonic elementary particle that acts as the force carrier for elementary fermions. W and Z bosons and gauge boson are bosons.
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Gauge theory
In physics, a gauge theory is a type of field theory in which the Lagrangian, and hence the dynamics of the system itself, do not change under local transformations according to certain smooth families of operations (Lie groups).
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Gluon
A gluon is a type of massless elementary particle that mediates the strong interaction between quarks, acting as the exchange particle for the interaction. W and Z bosons and gluon are bosons, elementary particles, force carriers and subatomic particles with spin 1.
Goldstone boson
In particle and condensed matter physics, Goldstone bosons or Nambu–Goldstone bosons (NGBs) are bosons that appear necessarily in models exhibiting spontaneous breakdown of continuous symmetries. W and Z bosons and Goldstone boson are bosons.
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Grand Unified Theory
Grand Unified Theory (GUT) is any model in particle physics that merges the electromagnetic, weak, and strong forces (the three gauge interactions of the Standard Model) into a single force at high energies.
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Graviton
In theories of quantum gravity, the graviton is the hypothetical quantum of gravity, an elementary particle that mediates the force of gravitational interaction. W and Z bosons and graviton are bosons and force carriers.
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Gravity
In physics, gravity is a fundamental interaction which causes mutual attraction between all things that have mass.
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Hadron
In particle physics, a hadron is a composite subatomic particle made of two or more quarks held together by the strong interaction.
Half-life
Half-life (symbol) is the time required for a quantity (of substance) to reduce to half of its initial value.
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Higgs boson
The Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, one of the fields in particle physics theory. W and Z bosons and Higgs boson are bosons, electroweak theory, elementary particles, force carriers and Standard Model.
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Higgs mechanism
In the Standard Model of particle physics, the Higgs mechanism is essential to explain the generation mechanism of the property "mass" for gauge bosons. W and Z bosons and Higgs mechanism are electroweak theory and Standard Model.
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Iron
Iron is a chemical element.
J/psi meson
The (J/psi) meson is a subatomic particle, a flavor-neutral meson consisting of a charm quark and a charm antiquark. W and Z bosons and J/psi meson are subatomic particles with spin 1.
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José Leite Lopes
José Leite Lopes (October 28, 1918 – June 12, 2006) was a Brazilian theoretical physicist who worked in the field of quantum field theory and particle physics.
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Joseph Lykken
Joseph David Lykken (born June 17, 1957) is an American theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and, from July 1, 2014 to Sept 6, 2022, he was the Deputy Director of Fermilab.
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Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle collider.
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Lepton
In particle physics, a lepton is an elementary particle of half-integer spin (spin) that does not undergo strong interactions. W and Z bosons and lepton are elementary particles.
List of particles
This is a list of known and hypothesized particles.
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Mass
Mass is an intrinsic property of a body.
Momentum
In Newtonian mechanics, momentum (momenta or momentums; more specifically linear momentum or translational momentum) is the product of the mass and velocity of an object.
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Neutral current
Weak neutral current interactions are one of the ways in which subatomic particles can interact by means of the weak force. W and Z bosons and neutral current are electroweak theory.
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Neutral particle
In physics, a neutral particle is a particle without an electric charge, such as a neutron.
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Nobel Foundation
The Nobel Foundation (Nobelstiftelsen) is a private institution founded on 29 June 1900 to manage the finances and administration of the Nobel Prizes.
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Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died.
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Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik) is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics.
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Nuclear transmutation
Nuclear transmutation is the conversion of one chemical element or an isotope into another chemical element.
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Observational error
Observational error (or measurement error) is the difference between a measured value of a quantity and its unknown true value.
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Particle accelerator
A particle accelerator is a machine that uses electromagnetic fields to propel charged particles to very high speeds and energies to contain them in well-defined beams.
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Particle Data Group
The Particle Data Group (PDG) is an international collaboration of particle physicists that compiles and reanalyzes published results related to the properties of particles and fundamental interactions.
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Particle detector
In experimental and applied particle physics, nuclear physics, and nuclear engineering, a particle detector, also known as a radiation detector, is a device used to detect, track, and/or identify ionizing particles, such as those produced by nuclear decay, cosmic radiation, or reactions in a particle accelerator.
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Particle physics
Particle physics or high-energy physics is the study of fundamental particles and forces that constitute matter and radiation.
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Photon
A photon is an elementary particle that is a quantum of the electromagnetic field, including electromagnetic radiation such as light and radio waves, and the force carrier for the electromagnetic force. W and Z bosons and photon are bosons, elementary particles, force carriers and subatomic particles with spin 1.
Physical Review
Physical Review is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1893 by Edward Nichols.
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Physicist
A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe.
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Physics World
Physics World is the membership magazine of the Institute of Physics, one of the largest physical societies in the world.
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Pierre Darriulat
Pierre Darriulat (born 17 February 1938) is a French experimental particle physicist.
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Planck constant
The Planck constant, or Planck's constant, denoted by is a fundamental physical constant of foundational importance in quantum mechanics: a photon's energy is equal to its frequency multiplied by the Planck constant, and the wavelength of a matter wave equals the Planck constant divided by the associated particle momentum.
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Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrix
In particle physics, the Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrix (PMNS matrix), Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrix (MNS matrix), lepton mixing matrix, or neutrino mixing matrix is a unitary mixing matrix which contains information on the mismatch of quantum states of neutrinos when they propagate freely and when they take part in weak interactions. W and Z bosons and Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrix are Standard Model.
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Proton
A proton is a stable subatomic particle, symbol, H+, or 1H+ with a positive electric charge of +1 e (elementary charge).
Quanta Magazine
Quanta Magazine is an editorially independent online publication of the Simons Foundation covering developments in physics, mathematics, biology and computer science.
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Quantum electrodynamics
In particle physics, quantum electrodynamics (QED) is the relativistic quantum field theory of electrodynamics. W and Z bosons and quantum electrodynamics are Standard Model.
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Quark
A quark is a type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter. W and Z bosons and quark are elementary particles.
Radioactive decay
Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay, radioactivity, radioactive disintegration, or nuclear disintegration) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by radiation.
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Relativistic Breit–Wigner distribution
The relativistic Breit–Wigner distribution (after the 1936 nuclear resonance formula of Gregory Breit and Eugene Wigner) is a continuous probability distribution with the following probability density function, See (page 98 onwards) for a discussion of the widths of particles in the PYTHIA manual.
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Sheldon Glashow
Sheldon Lee Glashow (born December 5, 1932) is a Nobel Prize-winning American theoretical physicist.
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Simon van der Meer
Simon van der Meer (24 November 19254 March 2011) was a Dutch particle accelerator physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Carlo Rubbia for contributions to the CERN project which led to the discovery of the W and Z particles, the two fundamental communicators of the weak interaction.
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Spin (physics)
Spin is an intrinsic form of angular momentum carried by elementary particles, and thus by composite particles such as hadrons, atomic nuclei, and atoms.
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Spontaneous symmetry breaking
Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a spontaneous process of symmetry breaking, by which a physical system in a symmetric state spontaneously ends up in an asymmetric state. W and Z bosons and spontaneous symmetry breaking are Standard Model.
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Standard Model
The Standard Model of particle physics is the theory describing three of the four known fundamental forces (electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions – excluding gravity) in the universe and classifying all known elementary particles.
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Sterile neutrino
Sterile neutrinos (or inert neutrinos) are hypothetical particles (neutral leptons – neutrinos) that interact only via gravity and not via any of the other fundamental interactions of the Standard Model.
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Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg (May 3, 1933 – July 23, 2021) was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles.
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Stochastic cooling
Stochastic cooling is a form of particle beam cooling.
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Strange quark
The strange quark or s quark (from its symbol, s) is the third lightest of all quarks, a type of elementary particle. W and Z bosons and strange quark are elementary particles.
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Strangeness
In particle physics, strangeness (symbol S) is a property of particles, expressed as a quantum number, for describing decay of particles in strong and electromagnetic interactions which occur in a short period of time.
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Strong interaction
In nuclear physics and particle physics, the strong interaction, also called the strong force or strong nuclear force, is a fundamental interaction that confines quarks into protons, neutrons, and other hadron particles.
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Super Proton Synchrotron
The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is a particle accelerator of the synchrotron type at CERN.
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Supersymmetry
Supersymmetry is a theoretical framework in physics that suggests the existence of a symmetry between particles with integer spin (bosons) and particles with half-integer spin (fermions).
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Tevatron
The Tevatron was a circular particle accelerator (active until 2011) in the United States, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (called Fermilab), east of Batavia, Illinois, and was the highest energy particle collider until the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) was built near Geneva, Switzerland.
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Top quark
The top quark, sometimes also referred to as the truth quark, (symbol: t) is the most massive of all observed elementary particles. W and Z bosons and top quark are elementary particles and Standard Model.
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Truly neutral particle
In particle physics, a truly neutral particle is a subatomic particle that is its own antiparticle.
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UA1 experiment
The UA1 experiment (an abbreviation of Underground Area 1) was a high-energy physics experiment that ran at CERN's Proton-Antiproton Collider (SpS), a modification of the one-beam Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS).
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UA2 experiment
The Underground Area 2 (UA2) experiment was a high-energy physics experiment at the Proton-Antiproton Collider (SpS) — a modification of the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) — at CERN.
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Unitary group
In mathematics, the unitary group of degree n, denoted U(n), is the group of unitary matrices, with the group operation of matrix multiplication.
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Unitary matrix
In linear algebra, an invertible complex square matrix is unitary if its matrix inverse equals its conjugate transpose, that is, if U^* U.
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University of Mainz
The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany.
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Up quark
The up quark or u quark (symbol: u) is the lightest of all quarks, a type of elementary particle, and a significant constituent of matter. W and Z bosons and up quark are elementary particles.
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Vacuum expectation value
In quantum field theory the vacuum expectation value (also called condensate or simply VEV) of an operator is its average or expectation value in the vacuum. W and Z bosons and vacuum expectation value are Standard Model.
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Vector boson
In particle physics, a vector boson is a boson whose spin equals one. W and Z bosons and vector boson are bosons and subatomic particles with spin 1.
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Weak charge
In nuclear physics and atomic physics, weak charge refers to the Standard Model weak interaction coupling of a particle to the Z boson.
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Weak interaction
In nuclear physics and particle physics, the weak interaction, also called the weak force, is one of the four known fundamental interactions, with the others being electromagnetism, the strong interaction, and gravitation. W and Z bosons and weak interaction are electroweak theory.
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Weak isospin
In particle physics, weak isospin is a quantum number relating to the electrically charged part of the weak interaction: Particles with half-integer weak isospin can interact with the bosons; particles with zero weak isospin do not. W and Z bosons and weak isospin are electroweak theory and Standard Model.
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Weinberg angle
The weak mixing angle or Weinberg angle is a parameter in the Weinberg–Salam theory of the electroweak interaction, part of the Standard Model of particle physics, and is usually denoted as. W and Z bosons and Weinberg angle are electroweak theory.
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1964 PRL symmetry breaking papers
The 1964 PRL symmetry breaking papers were written by three teams who proposed related but different approaches to explain how mass could arise in local gauge theories. W and Z bosons and 1964 PRL symmetry breaking papers are Standard Model.
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See also
Bosons
- Axion
- Bose–Einstein statistics
- Boson
- Chameleon particle
- Composite boson
- Dark photon
- Dual graviton
- Dual photon
- Even–even nucleus
- Exciton
- Gauge boson
- Gluon
- Goldstone boson
- Graviphoton
- Graviton
- Higgs boson
- Isoscalar
- Isovector
- Majoron
- Meson
- Mesons
- Odderon
- Phonon
- Photon
- Pressuron
- Pseudoscalar meson
- Pseudovector meson
- Scalar boson
- Scalar meson
- Sfermion
- Sgoldstino
- Soft graviton theorem
- Stop squark
- Surface phonon
- Symmetron
- Vector boson
- W and Z bosons
- X17 particle
- ZZ diboson
Electroweak theory
- 331 model
- Alternatives to the Standard Higgs Model
- Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix
- Charged current
- Custodial symmetry
- Electroweak interaction
- Electroweak scale
- Glashow resonance
- Higgs boson
- Higgs mechanism
- Hypercharge
- Mathematical formulation of the Standard Model
- Michel parameters
- Neutral current
- Neutrino oscillation
- Penguin diagram
- Peskin–Takeuchi parameter
- Semileptonic decay
- Sphaleron
- Technicolor (physics)
- W and Z bosons
- Weak hypercharge
- Weak interaction
- Weak isospin
- Weakless universe
- Weinberg angle
- Wu experiment
- Yukawa interaction
- ZZ diboson
Elementary particles
- Bottom quark
- Charm quark
- Down quark
- Electron
- Electron neutrino
- Elementary particle
- Force carriers
- Gluon
- Higgs boson
- Lepton
- Muon neutrino
- Neutrino
- Photon
- Positron
- Quark
- Quarks
- Strange quark
- Tau (particle)
- Tau neutrino
- Top quark
- Up quark
- W and Z bosons
Force carriers
- Chameleon particle
- Dark photon
- Dual graviton
- Dual photon
- Gluon
- Graviphoton
- Graviscalar
- Graviton
- Higgs boson
- Hyperphoton
- Magnetic photon
- Meson
- Mesons
- Photon
- Pressuron
- Symmetron
- W and Z bosons
- W′ and Z′ bosons
- X and Y bosons
- X17 particle
Standard Model
- 1964 PRL symmetry breaking papers
- An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
- Anomalous magnetic dipole moment
- Axial current
- B physics
- Baryon number
- Bimaximal mixing
- Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix
- Chiral anomaly
- Electroweak theory
- Flavor-changing neutral current
- Flavour (particle physics)
- G-parity
- GIM mechanism
- Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula
- Helicity basis
- Hierarchy problem
- Higgs boson
- Higgs mechanism
- Higgs sector
- Hypercharge
- Kinoshita–Lee–Nauenberg theorem
- Mass generation
- Mathematical formulation of the Standard Model
- Meitner–Hupfeld effect
- Neutral particle oscillation
- Neutrino oscillation
- Neutrinoless double beta decay
- Nonoblique correction
- Nucleon spin structure
- Oblique correction
- Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrix
- Quantum chromodynamics
- Quantum electrodynamics
- Quark–lepton complementarity
- Search for the Higgs boson
- Spontaneous symmetry breaking
- Standard Model
- Top quark
- Tribimaximal mixing
- Trimaximal mixing
- Vacuum expectation value
- W and Z bosons
- Weak hypercharge
- Weak isospin
- X (charge)
- Yukawa interaction
Subatomic particles with spin 1
- Deuterium
- Double-charm tetraquark
- Gluon
- Graviphoton
- J/psi meson
- Omega meson
- Phi meson
- Photon
- Pseudovector meson
- Rho meson
- Theta meson
- Upsilon meson
- Vector boson
- Vector meson
- W and Z bosons
- W′ and Z′ bosons
- X and Y bosons
- X(3872)
- Z(4430)
References
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