weak interaction's carrier particle
1Weak interaction — Standard model of particle physics …
2weak|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… …
3weak 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… …
4subatomic 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… …
5W 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… …
6Higgs 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… …
7Force 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… …
8fundamental interaction — In physics, the effect of any of the four fundamental forces gravitational, electromagnetic, strong, and weak. All known natural forces can be traced to these fundamental interactions. Gravitation is the attractive force between any two objects… …
9Meson — Mesons Mesons of spin 0 form a nonet Composition Composite Quarks and antiquarks Statistics Bosonic …
10W 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 …
