carrier particle for weak force

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• weak force — Physics. a force between elementary particles that causes certain processes that take place with low probability, as radioactive beta decay and collisions between neutrinos and other particles. Also called weak interaction force. Cf. weak… …   Universalium

• weak|on — «WEE kon», noun. Physics. a carrier of the weak interaction; W particle or Z particle: »For the weak force the mediating particle is the intermediate vector boson, now also known as the weakon (Scientific American). ╂[< weak (interaction or… …   Useful english dictionary

• Weak interaction — Standard model of particle physics …   Wikipedia

• Force carrier — This article is about force mediating particles in general. For the specific particles that mediate the electromagnetic, strong, and weak interactions, see gauge boson. In particle physics, quantum field theories such as the Standard Model… …   Wikipedia

• Z particle — n. Particle Physics the electrically neutral weakon with a mass of 91.2 GeV/c2, which is c. 178,000 times the mass of an electron: see W PARTICLE * * * Electrically neutral carrier of the weak force and the neutral partner of the electrically… …   Universalium

• subatomic particle — or elementary particle Any of various self contained units of matter or energy. Discovery of the electron in 1897 and of the atomic nucleus in 1911 established that the atom is actually a composite of a cloud of electrons surrounding a tiny but… …   Universalium

• W particle — Physics. either of two types of charged intermediate vector bosons, one having a positive charge and the other a negative charge. Symbols: W+, W [1970 75; appar. for weak] * * * Electrically charged subatomic particle that transmits the weak… …   Universalium

• Higgs particle — or Higgs boson Carrier of an all pervading fundamental field (Higgs field) that is hypothesized as a means of endowing mass on some elementary particles through its interactions with them. It was named for Peter W. Higgs born 1929 of the… …   Universalium

• W and Z bosons — Infobox Particle bgcolour = name = SubatomicParticle|W boson+ and Z Bosons caption = num types = composition = Elementary particle family = Boson group = Gauge boson generation = interaction = Weak interaction theorized = Glashow, Weinberg, Salam …   Wikipedia

• SLAC — ▪ laboratory, Menlo Park, California, United States acronym of  Stanford Linear Accelerator Center        U.S. national particle accelerator (particle accelerator) laboratory for research in high energy particle physics (physics) and synchrotron… …   Universalium

• M-theory — For a generally accessible and less technical introduction to the topic, see Introduction to M theory. String theory …   Wikipedia