: a particle (such as a photon or meson) whose spin quantum number is zero or an integral number compare fermion
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The Higgs boson is involved in conferring some particles with mass.
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Tom Siegfried, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2024
In other words, without the presence of the Higgs boson, these particles would be massless.
—Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
Instead axions belong to a class of particles called bosons—the category that includes photons, or particles of light.
—Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2022
Very roughly, the idea would be that left-handed fermions live on one sheet, right-handed fermions live on the other, and bosons — the force-carrying particles of the Standard Model — live on both.
—Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
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Tom Siegfried, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2024
In other words, without the presence of the Higgs boson, these particles would be massless.
—Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
Instead axions belong to a class of particles called bosons—the category that includes photons, or particles of light.
—Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2022
Very roughly, the idea would be that left-handed fermions live on one sheet, right-handed fermions live on the other, and bosons — the force-carrying particles of the Standard Model — live on both.
—Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
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“Boson.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boson. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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