gauge boson

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gauge
noun
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/ɡeɪdʒ/
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boson
noun[C]
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/ˈboʊ.sən/
a type of ...
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One of the conclusions is that the presence of agaugebosonmass suppresses large instantons, so that the instanton gas approximation is consistent.
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If it exists, a graviton must be a boson, and could conceivably be agaugeboson.
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This more powerful force is mediated by particles called gluons, which are a type ofgaugeboson.
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In the case of local, dynamical symmetries, associated with every charge is a gauge field; when quantized, the gauge field becomes agaugeboson.
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It is also sometimes referred to as the self energy of thegaugeboson(photon).
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The propagator for agaugebosonin a gauge theory depends on the choice of convention to fix the gauge.
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The photon is thegaugebosonfor electromagnetism, and therefore all other quantum numbers of the photon (such as lepton number, baryon number, and flavour quantum numbers) are zero.
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The gluons correspond to the unbroken gauge bosons and the color octet axigluons -- which couple strongly to the quarksare massive.
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When such a theory is quantized, the quanta of the gauge fields are called "gauge bosons".
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Consequently, there are as many gauge bosons as there are generators of the gauge field.
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Therefore, at a nave theoretical level all gauge bosons are required to be massless, and the forces that they describe are required to be long-ranged.
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Massless weakly interacting gauge bosons lead to long-range forces, which are only observed for electromagnetism and the corresponding massless photon.
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This coupling is induced by gauge bosons of the enlarged group.
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Perturbative quantum field theory (usually employed for scattering theory) describes forces in terms of force-mediating particles called gauge bosons.
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Force particles, called gauge bosons "force carriers" or "messenger particles" of underlying fieldsinteract with matter particles, called fermions.
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It has no intrinsic spin, and for that reason is classified as a boson (like the gauge bosons, which have integer spin).
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It describes the strong, weak, and electromagnetic fundamental interactions, using mediating gauge bosons.
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An interaction is often described as a physical field, and is mediated by the exchange of gauge bosons between particles.
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These gauge bosons can interact with each other and with fermions according to the geometry of the group and its fundamental representations.
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Currently, the only known massless particles are gauge bosons: the photon (carrier of electromagnetism) and the gluon (carrier of the strong force).
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