Phrase Hound found 11 phrases and 7 compound words that contain bosons. The most common are listed below. Open bosons in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 11
- gauge bosonsplural of gauge boson: Any of the fundamental particles that carry the fundamental forces of nature.
- Higgs bosonsplural of Higgs boson: An elementary particle in the Standard Model, namely a boson with zero spin, that gives mass to other particles.
- vector bosonsplural of vector boson: Any of a family of gauge bosons having a spin quantum number of one.
- W-bosonsplural of W-boson: a fundamental particle, a gauge boson, that, together with the Z-boson, mediates the weak nuclear force; it has a charge of ± 1
- X bosonsplural of X boson: A hypothetical elementary particle that couples quarks to leptons, analogous to the W boson and Z boson, but corresponding to a new type of force predicted by the Georgi–Glashow model.
- Z bosonsplural of Z boson: a fundamental particle, a gauge boson, that, together with the W-boson, mediates the weak nuclear force; it has a charge of 0
- Goldstone bosonsplural of Goldstone boson: A spinless boson that necessarily appears in models exhibiting spontaneous breakdown of continuous symmetries.
- Nambu-Goldstone bosonsplural of Nambu-Goldstone boson: A spinless boson that necessarily appears in models exhibiting spontaneous breakdown of continuous symmetries.
- scalar bosonsplural of scalar boson: A boson which has zero spin.
- intermediate vector bosonsplural of intermediate vector boson: Any of the three fundamental particles (the two W-bosons and the Z-boson) that transmit the weak nuclear force and have a mass about 100 times that of a proton.
- pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosonsplural of pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson: A light scalar particle that arises from the spontaneous breaking of a global continuous symmetry, but with an additional small explicit breaking of the symmetry that gives it a small but nonzero …
Compound words 7
- pseudobosonsplural of pseudoboson
- antibosonsplural of antiboson: The antiparticle of a boson.
- parabosonsplural of paraboson: The equivalent of a boson in any of several parastatistics.
- quasibosonsplural of quasiboson: A particle that behaves as if it were a boson
- superbosonsplural of superboson: A condensation of multiple bosons.
- tribosonsplural of triboson: Any particle composed of three bosons
- vectorbosonsplural of vectorboson: Any of a family of gauge bosons having a spin quantum number of one.