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  • weak interaction

    …angular momentum, or spin—and right-handed antifermions. Particles interact through the weak interaction by exchanging force-carrier particles known as the W and Z particles. These particles are heavy, with masses about 100 times the mass of a proton, and it is their heaviness that defines the extremely short-range nature of the…

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    …angular momentum, or spin—and right-handed antifermions. Particles interact through the weak interaction by exchanging force-carrier particles known as the W and Z particles. These particles are heavy, with masses about 100 times the mass of a proton, and it is their heaviness that defines the extremely short-range nature of the…

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