weakon

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noun

A W-boson or Z-boson.

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Meanings

nounweakon (plural weakons)

plural weakons

  1. natural sciencesA W-boson or Z-boson.

    There are three forces that we try to understand in this framework (the electromagnetic interaction, the weak interaction and the strong interaction) and we associate with them the exchange of three types of bosons, the photon, the W^± and Z⁰ (that I call weakons) and the eight gluons.

    1980, U. Amaldi, “Panel Discussion: Accelerators for the Future Physics”, in 11th International Conference on High-Energy Accelerators, page 922

Origin

From weak + -on.

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