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Term: boson
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Definition: particle with integer spin quantum number, i.e. 0, 1, 2, ...

NOTE 1 Bosons undergo Bose-Einstein statistics and do not obey the Pauli exclusion principle (see fermion).

NOTE 2 Bosons are e.g the photon and all particles constituted from an even number of fermions (e.g. pion, helium nucleus 4He).


Publication date:2011-04
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