boson

noun

: a particle (such as a photon or meson) whose spin quantum number is zero or an integral number compare fermion
bosonic adjective

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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 For example, the W’s sibling, the Z boson, can decay into a particle called a muon and its antimatter counterpart, both easily trackable. Byadrian Cho, science.org, 20 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for boson 

Word History

Etymology

Satyendranath Bose †1974 Indian physicist + -on entry 2

First Known Use

1947, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of boson was in 1947

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“Boson.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boson. Accessed 5 Dec. 2024.

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