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The 21 pages that link to W and Z bosons, each with the reason it gives.

• Standard ModelBroader topic: Their discovery at CERN in 1983 confirmed a major electroweak prediction.

• Electroweak interactionBroader topic: Their large masses make weak processes short-ranged, unlike photon-mediated electromagnetism.

• Higgs mechanismBroader topic: Their masses arise from the Higgs mechanism in electroweak theory.

• BosonBroader topic: Their spin-one nature makes them bosons that carry a fundamental force.

• Abdus SalamBroader topic: Electroweak theory predicted these particles before their experimental discovery.

• Gauge bosonBroader topic: Their large masses make the weak interaction short-ranged.

• Steven WeinbergBroader topic: Their predicted masses and interactions follow from electroweak symmetry breaking.

• Sheldon GlashowBroader topic: Their existence follows from the electroweak framework Glashow helped create.

• Electroweak symmetry breakingBroader topic: They acquire mass from the Higgs field’s vacuum value.

• Electroweak theoryBroader topic: They are the massive weak-force carriers predicted by the broken theory.

• Robert BroutBroader topic: Their masses are explained by the mechanism Brout and Englert proposed.

• Electroweak epochBroader topic: Their masses distinguish the post-transition weak force from the massless electroweak gauge fields.

• Gerard ’t HooftBroader topic: Their predicted properties could be calculated consistently within the renormalized electroweak theory.

• Tau neutrinoBroader topic: W bosons mediate reactions that convert a tau neutrino into its charged partner.

• Force carrierBroader topic: Their large masses help make weak processes short-ranged.