The theory’s vindication would come only with a glimpse of W and Z bosons—particles which, it posited, carried the weak force, just as photons carried the electromagnetic one.

因为，这个理论的最终证实， 惟赖人们一瞥玻色子W和Z的真容——该理论推断这两种粒子携带弱相互作用力，就像光子携带有电磁力一样。

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Then there are neutrinos, W and Z bosons, the electron-like muon and tau particles, and gluons—which hold quarks together in groups.

然后还有中微子，W和Z波色子，类电子的μ粒子和τ粒子，还有胶子——它的作用是将夸克聚合成团。

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Without it, or something like it, some of the Standard Model's particles that actually do have mass (particularly the W and Z bosons) would be predicted to be massless.

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The Standard Model (see table) includes familiar particles such as electrons and photons, and esoteric ones like the W and Z bosons, which carry something called the weak nuclear force.

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