electroweak
Describing the combination of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces.
Adjective
- 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.