Yukawa interaction

English

Etymology

Named after Hideki Yukawa.

Noun

Yukawa interaction (plural Yukawa interactions)

  1. (physics) A kind of interaction between a scalar field and a Dirac field, used to describe the nuclear force between nucleons mediated by pions.
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