Yukawa
Proper noun
Meaning
Yukawa (plural Yukawas)
A surname from Japanese.
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Following the discovery of the pion, Yukawa was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics for his predictions.
From the range of the strong nuclear force (inferred from the radius of the atomic nucleus ), Yukawa predicted the existence of a particle having a mass of about 100 MeV.
The h term describes the Higgs field F. : The y term gives the Yukawa interaction that generates the fermion masses after the Higgs acquires a vacuum expectation value.
From the short range of this force, Hideki Yukawa predicted that it was associated with a massive particle, whose mass is approximately 100 MeV.
The problem of meson absorption and Hideki Yukawa 's theory of mesons as the carrier particles of the strong nuclear force were also tackled.
The theory of electron capture was first discussed by Gian-Carlo Wick in a 1934 paper, and then developed by Hideki Yukawa and others.