Category
page 1Subatomic particles with spin 0
Higgs boson
elementary particle transmitting the Higgs field giving particles mass
alpha particle
particle of alpha radiation; helium-4 nucleus; particle of two protons and two neutrons
axion
An axion () is a hypothetical elementary particle originally theorized in 1978 independently by Frank Wilczek and Steven Weinberg as the Goldstone boson of Peccei–Quinn theory, which had been proposed in 1977 to solve the strong CP problem in quantum chromodynamics (QCD). If axions exist and have low mass within a specific range, they are of interest as a possible component of cold dark matter.
scalar boson
boson with spin equal to zero
sfermion
In supersymmetric extension to the Standard Model (SM) of physics, a sfermion is a hypothetical spin-0 superpartner particle (sparticle) of its associated fermion. Each particle has a superpartner with spin that differs by . Fermions in the SM have spin- and, therefore, sfermions have spin 0.
Goldstone boson
massless boson that must be present in a quantum system with spontaneously broken symmetry
majoron
In particle physics, majorons (named after Ettore Majorana) are a hypothetical type of Goldstone boson that are conjectured to mediate the neutrino mass violation of lepton number or B − L in certain high energy collisions such as
chameleon
hypothetical scalar particle
quartic interaction
A scalar field having types of self interactions
scalar meson
meson with total spin 0 and even parity