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201: 1574: 25: 1497: 323: 1247: 1618: 1485: 335: 89: 527: 61: 1383: 108: 68: 1464: 339: 188:, whereas "regular" vector bosons have odd parity. There are no fundamental pseudovector bosons, but there are 46: 75: 403: 42: 1480: 57: 312: 1613: 1556: 170: 968: 469: 361: 404:"Intermediate Vector Bosons: Production and Identification at the CERN Proton-Antiproton Collider" 303:), meaning that any measurement of its spin can only yield one of these values. (This is true for 1608: 1524: 1159: 786: 520: 300: 238: 150: 35: 1459: 796: 378: 1546: 331: 493: 441: 276: 215:, which is a prominent process of the generation of Higgs bosons at particle accelerators ( 82: 8: 1561: 544: 138: 454: 445: 429: 1504: 513: 189: 154: 1573: 1541: 1454: 933: 678: 605: 308: 1551: 1322: 1097: 958: 943: 625: 536: 449: 327: 280: 185: 174: 122: 1603: 1598: 1519: 1444: 1428: 1368: 778: 703: 693: 683: 595: 489: 260: 204: 173:(the W and Z bosons, which mediate the weak interaction) drew much attention in 1578: 1492: 1449: 1185: 973: 746: 668: 663: 585: 256: 134: 1592: 1536: 1388: 1355: 1147: 1117: 1049: 908: 688: 615: 600: 319: 146: 1514: 1064: 1054: 1044: 805: 756: 698: 620: 575: 474: 383: 373: 350: 158: 1529: 1297: 1200: 1195: 1112: 1107: 1037: 991: 948: 913: 872: 764: 728: 590: 242: 212: 208: 142: 1271: 1165: 1155: 1137: 1027: 928: 863: 580: 505: 284: 428:
Ellis, John; Gaillard, Mary K.; Girardi, Georges; Sorba, Paul (1982).
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consisting of three states, the same as the number of components of a
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such as the photon, for reasons beyond the scope of this article. See
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just like the spatial components of a rotating vector (the so-called
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of these states can be taken such that they transform under
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particles interact with the Higgs boson as shown in the
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