one-particle exchange

one-particle exchange

[′wən ‚pärd·ə·kəl iks′chānj]

(particle physics)

A model for the interaction of two particles in which the interaction results entirely from a single virtual particle being emitted by one interacting particle and absorbed by the other.

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