weakon

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English

Etymology

From weak +‎ -on.

Noun

weakon (plural weakons)

  1. (physics) A W-boson or Z-boson.
    • 1980, U. Amaldi, “Panel Discussion: Accelerators for the Future Physics”, in 11th International Conference on High-Energy Accelerators, page 922:
      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.

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