electroweak

Describing the combination of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces.

Adjective

  1. Describing the combination of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces.
    • In the next section we ignore these intermediate energy scales and the intermediate unification steps and concentrate on the main problem of the Grand Unification schemes of electroweak and strong unification: What is...

Origin

From electro- + weak. Coined by Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam and used informally as early as 1978, and by him in print and his Nobel Prize lecture in 1979.

Related

electrostrong

Derived

electroweakino electroweak interaction