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boson
[ boh-son ]
noun
- any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics: bosons have integral spins: 0, 1, 2, …
boson
/ bō′sŏn /
- Any of a class of elementary or composite particles, including the photon, pion, and gluon, that are not subject to the Pauli exclusion principle (that is, any two bosons can potentially be in the same quantum state ). The value of the spin of a boson is always an integer. Mesons are bosons, as are the gauge bosons (the particles that mediate the fundamental forces). They are named after the physicist Satyendra Nath Bose.
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Origin of boson1
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Example Sentences
For 50 years, scientists had predicted the existence of the particle we now know as Higgs boson, which gives mass to matter.
NPR's All Things Considered interviews Dick Teresi, the man credited with naming the Higgs-Boson Particle the "God Particle."
The Higgs boson is a propagating ripple in the Higgs field, much like sound is a propagating ripple in the air.
The Higgs boson discovery revolutionizes the world of physics.
On December 13 came the news that something exciting was beginning to show–perhaps a Higgs Boson.
A group of deck-hands snickered, and the boson pretended to climb down from the rigging.
Aloft was the boson, apparently rigging up some sort of a hoisting arrangement.
In the Rue Boson is another edifice which may have something in common with the life of the first Burgundian court.
I have written to secure my grandson Boson a view of the ceremony.
“Advice from a friend in the country to his neighbour who went up to receive £16,000 in London,” by John Boson.
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