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boson

/boh-son/US // ˈboʊ sɒn //UK // (ˈbəʊzɒn) //

玻色子,波色子,波塞子,玻色体

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Physics.

    • : any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics: bosons have integral spins: 0, 1, 2, …

Examples

  • The “strong evidence” for this W particle, or W boson, fell apart under additional scrutiny.

  • Weighing the W boson narrowed down the Higgs’ mass range, making the Higgs easier to look for.

  • Physicists continue unraveling W boson mysteries, such as how the particles form and whether more massive versions exist.

  • Multiwire proportional chambers and their descendants revolutionized particle physics, and led to discoveries of particles such as the charm quark and the gluon in the 1970s, and the W and Z bosons in the 1980s.

  • It strongly suggested that something was missing from the theoretical calculation, something like a dark matter particle or an extra force-carrying boson.

  • 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.