Standard Model

English

Alternative forms

• Standard model, standard model

Etymology

Coined by American physicists Abraham Pais and Sam Treiman in 1975.

Proper noun

the Standard Model

1. (particle physics) A theory about the electromagnetic, weak, and strong nuclear interactions that mediate the dynamics of the known subatomic particles.
   • 1977 January 1, Abraham Pais, “Current problems in the weak interactions”, in Symposium on five decades of weak interactions:

     I shall call this the standard model (SM). There is promise that this model is part of the truth.

   • 2021 April 7, Pallab Ghosh, quoting Mark Lancaster, “Muons: 'Strong' evidence found for a new force of nature”, in BBC News‎^[1]:

     Prof Mark Lancaster, who is the UK lead for the experiment, told BBC News: "We have found the interaction of muons are not in agreement with the Standard Model [the current widely accepted theory to explain how the building blocks of the Universe behave]."

Hypernyms

• quantum field theory

Translations

theory

• Catalan: model estàndard m
• Danish: standardmodel c
• Finnish: standardimalli
• French: modèle standard (fr) m
• German: Standardmodell (de) n
• Hungarian: standard modell
• Portuguese: Modelo Padrão m
• Russian: Станда́ртная моде́ль f (Standártnaja modɛ́lʹ)
• Spanish: modelo estándar m
• Swedish: standardmodellen
• Turkish: Standart Model

Further reading

• Standard Model on Wikipedia.Wikipedia