Back ভেক্টর বোসন Bengali/Bangla Bosón vectorial Spanish بردار بوزون Persian Boson vecteur French Bosone vettore Italian ベクトル粒子 Japanese 벡터 보손 Korean Vectorboson Dutch Векторный бозон Russian Vektör bozonu Turkish
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In particle physics, a vector boson is a boson whose spin equals one. Vector bosons that are also elementary particles are gauge bosons, the force carriers of fundamental interactions. Some composite particles are vector bosons, for instance any vector meson (quark and antiquark). During the 1970s and 1980s, intermediate vector bosons (the W and Z bosons, which mediate the weak interaction) drew much attention in particle physics.[1][2]
A pseudovector boson is a vector boson that has even parity, whereas "regular" vector bosons have odd parity. There are no fundamental pseudovector bosons, but there are pseudovector mesons.
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