Antoine-Henri Becquerel's discovery of radioactivity in 1896 was also the indirect discovery of the weak nuclear force. Becquerel's photographic plate was fogged by beta particles (electrons) emitted by uranium nuclei in a process known as weak beta...

Electroweak force is the name given to the unified electromagnetic and weak interactions. The two interactions are viewed as different combinations of one underlying force, hence the term unified. The electroweak force acts differently between...

The physical world appears to be a terribly complex place, with many different kinds of particles reacting with each other in a great variety of ways. Yet, scientists are convinced that this apparent " messiness" is an illusion and that fundamentally,...

The electroweak theory of particle physics is a unification of the electromagnetic and weak interactions. Because it is a gauge field theory, the force is transmitted between matter particles by other particles known as gauge bosons. The electroweak...

In particle physics, the electroweak interaction is the unified description of two of the four fundamental interactions of nature: electromagnetism and the weak interaction. Although these two forces appear very different at everyday low energies, the...