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CEN Saclay Centre d' etudes Nucleaires (Center for Nuclear Studies) de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France Centre Europeenne pour la Recherche Nucleaire (European Organization for Nuclear Research; also called the European Laboratory for Particle Physics)
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msec millisecond NSAC Nuclear Science Advisory Committee of the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation NSCL National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University NSF National Science Foundation (United States) QCD quantum chromodynamics QED quantum electrodynamics QHD quantum hadrodynamics RNC relativistic nuclear collider SIN Swiss Institute of Nuclear Research, Villigen, Switzerland SLAC Stanford Linear Accelerator Center SURA Southeastern Universities Research Association TeV tera-electron volt (10'2 eV)
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The most common baryon resonances are the nucleon resonances and delta resonances. Beta particle.
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A circular accelerator in which the charged particles spiral outward from the center of the machine as they are given repeated energy boosts from an alternating electric field in a fixed magnetic field. Decay.
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Elementary vector boson. One of the three classes of elementary particles, consisting of photons, gluons, and the intermediate vector bosons; these particles are the carriers of the fundamental forces.
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Any of eight massless, colored particles that are the carriers of the color force. They are elementary vector bosons and are confined within hadron bags.
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One of three massive, charged or neutral particles that are the carriers of the weak force. Designated as W+, W-, and Z°, they are elementary vector bosons, as are photons and gluons.
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Linear accelerator. A type of accelerator in which the charged particles follow a straight path as they are given repeated energy boosts from a series of electric fields.
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Parity. A fundamental symmetry principle governing the nature of physical laws when the spatial coordinates of the system are totally reflected.
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All 12 quarks are fermions; they interact via the color force as well as the weak force. All have a fractional electric charge and are confined within hadron bags.
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theories of the electroweak interaction and quantum chromodynamics, with which all known facts of nuclear physics and elementary particle physics are consistent. State variable.
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A component of the unified electroweak force, responsible for the decay of many radioactive nuclides and unstable particles and for all neutrino interactions. It is experienced by all leptons, quarks, and hadrons, through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons.
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