pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons

A form of pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson — A light scalar particle that arises from the spontaneous breaking of a global continuous symmetry, but with an additional small explicit breaking of the symmetry that gives it a small but nonzero mass.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson
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