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"For the weak force... universality of coupling strength is not readily apparent. ic weak forces are very different in nature from ic weak processes."
Weak interactionThe weak force does not seem to hold anything together, only to break — Weak interaction
"The weak force does not seem to hold anything together, only to break it apart. ...we do not observe s of the weak force. ...So the weak force seems a force apart... Interwoven with the surprising story of the weak force has been the story of s, arguably the most intriguing of the fundamental particles. ...the neutrinos provide a unique and valuable mirror on the weak force. ...In the 1920s, and for a while disputed the energy spectrum of electrons emitted in β decay. ...Chadwick demonstrated... that the spectrum was continuous, i.e. the electron could take on a whole range of energies. ...contrary to the single line expected from energy conservation if only... the electron and the nucleus, were involved... Neils Bohr advocated abandoning energy conservation... but in 1930 Wolfgang Pauli daringly proposed an unseen... neutrino... Paulis intuition... inspired Enrico Fermi in his tentative theory of β decay... to become the basis for ideas of a universal weak force."
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In nuclear physics and particle physics, the weak interaction, weak force or weak nuclear force, is one of the four known fundamental interactions, with the others being electromagnetism, the strong interaction, and gravitation. It is the mechanism of interaction between subatomic particles that is responsible for the radioactive decay of atoms: The weak interaction participates in nuclear fission
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"How can s be produced in the center of the sun and how can they be detected in laboratories here on earth if they are subject neither to the strong force nor to the electromagnetic one? Another force, the so-called weak force, is responsible. The electron neutrino does participate in that interaction, along with the electron."
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"The mass of the W and Z prevents the weak force from extending beyond their Compton length (about a hundredth the size of a proton)..."
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"s were among the most paradoxical members of the zoo of elementary particles that were discovered after the war. Produced during radioactive decay, they supposedly had neither charge nor mass and they traveled, consequently, at the speed of light. Their only interaction with the world (besides gravity) was by something called the "weak" force, which causes some kinds of radioactive decay. It was so weak that, according to calculations, a typical neutrino could pass through a million miles of water unhindered—stars and planets were transparent to them."
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"The weak force... least fits into our typical picture of what a force should do. ...the categories of attractive and repulsive do not really fit the weak force ... because it has the ability to change particles from one type to another. ...The weak force can change one into another provided they are in the same generation. The electron can be changed into an electron and vice versa, but the electron cannot be turned into the ..."
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"It appears that the strong interactions and electromagnetic interactions are invariant with respect to C, P, and T separately, while the weak interactions do not conserve P or C. All experimental results are consistent with the assumption the T invariance holds true for all interactions; consequently, from the CPT theorem, weak interactions must be invariant under CP. One could not, then, determine if the photographed scene were a scene of particles viewed normally, or a scene of antiparticles projected in a mirror."
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