(physics) A spinless boson that necessarily appears in models exhibiting spontaneous breakdown of continuous symmetries.

plural of Higgs boson

plural of gauge boson

(physics) A hypothetical elementary particle that couples quarks to leptons, analogous to the W boson and Z boson, but corresponding to a new type of force predicted by the Georgi–Glashow model.

plural of X boson

plural of vector boson

(astrophysics) A theoretical type of heavenly body composed of a form of boson that is self-repelling, what should be highly dense and bend spacetime in a manner approaching that of a black hole.

(physics) A boson which has zero spin.

(physics) Any of the three fundamental particles (the two W-bosons and the Z-boson) that transmit the weak nuclear force and have a mass about 100 times that of a proton.

plural of intermediate vector boson