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vector boson comparison table

Subject	has definition
W particle	Massive boson thought to have been abundant in the early universe, when the unified electroweak force was manifest.
Z particle	Particle that transmits the unified electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces. These particles were predicted by the Weinberg-Salam theory of the 1960s and later discovered in the 1980s.

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