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pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A light scalar particle that arises from the spontaneous breaking of a global continuous symmetry, but with an additional small explicit breaking of the symmetry that gives it a small but nonzero mass.

Word forms

pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons

Synonyms

pNGB
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