How to Use boson in a Sentence

boson

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  • The faster the muon or electron, the heavier the W boson that produced it.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 7 Apr. 2022
  • After ten years of making bosons, the CEPC will be retired.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2018
  • And, a new boson means a new force, which is even more exciting.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Then there are the force carriers: photons, W and Z bosons, the Higgs, and gluons.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2018
  • Leptons and bosons do give us a hint to follow, however.
    — Joe Lindsey, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2019
  • In order to calculate the W boson’s mass, physicists use the mass of the Higgs boson.
    — John Conway, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2022
  • To tide you over, here are Henry's latest videos about our favorite scalar boson.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2012
  • So the idea is that the interesting thing about the Higgs boson is not the particle itself.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
  • But some scientists think that dark matter could have its own boson.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2021
  • This happens when the quarks exchange a particle called a W boson — one of the carriers of the weak force, with an electric charge of either +1 or −1.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Oct. 2020
  • But, cool them enough, and two helium atoms can pair up to create a composite boson.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2018
  • The idea that the Large Hadron Collier would discover the Higgs boson but nothing else has long been physicists’ worst nightmare.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 19 June 2017
  • Each of these forces is carried by a kind of subatomic particle that physicists call a boson.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Those blocks can be divided into two basic clans: fermions and bosons.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The Higgs boson was the latest piece in the reigning theory of particle physics called the Standard Model.
    — Chandrashekhar Joshi, Scientific American, 1 July 2021
  • But there’s much more—protons and neutrons are made up of quarks held together by gluons, one of several types of boson.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 June 2018
  • But boson sampling can predict the results by carrying out the task itself.
    — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2019
  • The boson is at the heart of physicists’ understanding of the universe, responsible for the mass in the atoms that make up galaxies, planets and people.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2013
  • The app was created by Swedish physicist Elina Berglund, who was part of the team that discovered the Higgs boson particle.
    — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Malia White spent her first-ever charter season on the deck of Sirocco in season 2, and has since worked her way up in the industry to return as boson on the Wellington in season 5.
    — Jean Bentley, refinery29.com, 22 June 2020
  • Q: How has the field of physics changed since the 2011 Higgs boson (a fundamental particle) discovery?
    — Lauren Williams, Orange County Register, 27 Feb. 2017
  • Meanwhile, theorists can’t help but ponder what an oversize W boson might mean.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Same experiment, different atom, but the same 17MeV boson was found.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2019
  • There are also three fields of force: electromagnetism with its particles, the photons; the strong nuclear force with its gluons; and the weak nuclear force with its W and Z bosons.
    — Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The finding supports the idea that a single, Standard Model Higgs boson explains how all particles get their mass.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 26 June 2014
  • There’s just one boson (the massless photon) for the electromagnetic force, three (the massive W-and-Z bosons) for the weak force, eight (massless gluons), and one (massive) Higgs boson.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Supersymmetry says that every boson (one of two types of particle) has a partner fermion (the other type), and vice versa.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Mar. 2022
  • One section dealt with the body language of physicists attempting to explain the Higgs boson particle.
    — Siobhan Burke and Brian Seibert, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2017
  • Following the discovery of the eponymous boson in 2012, the question became who among the Gang of Six should share the Nobel Prize, which can only go to a maximum of three joint recipients.
    — Andrew Crumey, WSJ, 3 June 2022
  • Models that introduce new particles such as the Z' boson and the leptoquark will be updated in light of the new information.
    — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2021

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