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gauge boson
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gauge boson [′gāj ‚bō‚sän]
(physics)
A massless spin-1 particle, such as the photon and gluons, whose existence is required by gauge invariance in a gauge theory; such particles can acquire mass through spontaneous symmetry breaking, as in the case of intermediate vector bosons. Also known as gauge particle.
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