How to Use boson in a Sentence

boson

noun
  • The first is known as a boson star.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 26 Dec. 2025
  • And, a new boson means a new force, which is even more exciting.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2019
  • But some scientists think that dark matter could have its own boson.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The faster the muon or electron, the heavier the W boson that produced it.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 7 Apr. 2022
  • To tide you over, here are Henry's latest videos about our favorite scalar boson.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2012
  • But, cool them enough, and two helium atoms can pair up to create a composite boson.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2018
  • Each of these forces is carried by a kind of subatomic particle that physicists call a boson.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Particle accelerators have cracked open the strange world of bosons and quarks.
    — Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • But the carriers of the weak force, known as the W and Z bosons, are heavier than a proton.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The possible existence of boson stars is a double-edge sword.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 26 Jan. 2025
  • But boson sampling can predict the results by carrying out the task itself.
    — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Meanwhile, theorists can’t help but ponder what an oversize W boson might mean.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 7 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • So the idea is that the interesting thing about the Higgs boson is not the particle itself.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
  • One of the most fundamental divides separates fermions and bosons.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Jan. 2026
  • In order to calculate the W boson’s mass, physicists use the mass of the Higgs boson.
    — John Conway, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Physicists have measured the mass of one of the universe’s basic building blocks, the W boson particle.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2026
  • In this process, a top quark and its antimatter counterpart, an anti-top quark, are produced along with a Z boson.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The Higgs boson is involved in conferring some particles with mass.
    — Tom Siegfried, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2024
  • In other words, without the presence of the Higgs boson, these particles would be massless.
    — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Peter Higgs is the scientist whom the Higgs boson was named after.
    — Leah Feiger, WIRED, 11 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • Supersymmetry says that every boson (one of two types of particle) has a partner fermion (the other type), and vice versa.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The Higgs boson is a particle that generates a field other particles have to travel through.
    — Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2023
  • The Higgs boson completes the theory by helping give the other particles mass.
    — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
  • One section dealt with the body language of physicists attempting to explain the Higgs boson particle.
    — Siobhan Burke and Brian Seibert, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2017
  • The neutrino is nearly as elusive as the W boson, but CMS can study muons very precisely.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The energy of the collision spawns many new particles, including—sometimes—W bosons.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2026

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