How to Use boson in a Sentence

boson

noun

• Similarly, electrons are ripples in the electron field, and the Higgs boson is a minimal ripple in the Higgs field.
  — Matt Strassler, Quanta Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
• The faster the muon or electron, the heavier the W boson that produced it.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 7 Apr. 2022
• After ten years of making bosons, the CEPC will be retired.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2018
• And, a new boson means a new force, which is even more exciting.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2019
• Then there are the force carriers: photons, W and Z bosons, the Higgs, and gluons.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2018
• Leptons and bosons do give us a hint to follow, however.
  — Joe Lindsey, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2019
• In order to calculate the W boson’s mass, physicists use the mass of the Higgs boson.
  — John Conway, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2022
• To tide you over, here are Henry's latest videos about our favorite scalar boson.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2012
• So the idea is that the interesting thing about the Higgs boson is not the particle itself.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
• But some scientists think that dark matter could have its own boson.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2021
• This happens when the quarks exchange a particle called a W boson — one of the carriers of the weak force, with an electric charge of either +1 or −1.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Oct. 2020
• But, cool them enough, and two helium atoms can pair up to create a composite boson.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2018
• The Higgs boson contributes only the small remainder—the tiny mass the quarks and electrons possess on their own.
  — Stanley J. Brodsky, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
• The idea that the Large Hadron Collier would discover the Higgs boson but nothing else has long been physicists’ worst nightmare.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 19 June 2017
• Each of these forces is carried by a kind of subatomic particle that physicists call a boson.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2020
• Those blocks can be divided into two basic clans: fermions and bosons.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
• The Higgs boson was the latest piece in the reigning theory of particle physics called the Standard Model.
  — Chandrashekhar Joshi, Scientific American, 1 July 2021
• The Higgs boson is an omnipresent quantum field that soaks all of space and time and forces all other particles to interact with it.
  — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 11 June 2024
• What happened in real life: The equation on the chalkboard was impressively close to predicting the mass of the Higgs boson, a.k.a.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 13 June 2024
• But there’s much more—protons and neutrons are made up of quarks held together by gluons, one of several types of boson.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 June 2018
• But boson sampling can predict the results by carrying out the task itself.
  — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2019
• The boson is at the heart of physicists’ understanding of the universe, responsible for the mass in the atoms that make up galaxies, planets and people.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2013
• Peter Higgs is the scientist whom the Higgs boson was named after.
  — Leah Feiger, WIRED, 11 Apr. 2024
• The app was created by Swedish physicist Elina Berglund, who was part of the team that discovered the Higgs boson particle.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2017
• Malia White spent her first-ever charter season on the deck of Sirocco in season 2, and has since worked her way up in the industry to return as boson on the Wellington in season 5.
  — Jean Bentley, refinery29.com, 22 June 2020
• Q: How has the field of physics changed since the 2011 Higgs boson (a fundamental particle) discovery?
  — Lauren Williams, Orange County Register, 27 Feb. 2017
• According to theory, the particles that carry that force — bosons — should be massless, like the photon that transmits light.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
• Meanwhile, theorists can’t help but ponder what an oversize W boson might mean.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 7 Apr. 2022
• Same experiment, different atom, but the same 17MeV boson was found.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2019
• There are also three fields of force: electromagnetism with its particles, the photons; the strong nuclear force with its gluons; and the weak nuclear force with its W and Z bosons.
  — Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024