vector boson
noun
a boson with a spin of one.
vector bosons
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pluralof vector boson.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Two were known as weak vector bosons and given the names of W and Z. In physical theory, bits of matter on the subatomic scale exert forces on one another through the exchange of particles.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2021
The particles W+ , W− , and Z0 are called vector bosons; these were predicted by theory and first observed in 1983.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
And the LHC is still discovering properties about the top quark.The real parallel was the discovery of the W and Z vector bosons, which was in 1983 at CERN.
From Forbes ● Jul. 5, 2012
These were massive vector bosons, and we’d never seen them before.
From Forbes ● Jul. 5, 2012
They suggested that in addition to the photon, there were three other spin-1 particles, known collectively as massive vector bosons, that carried the weak force.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
