flavordynamics
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flavor + dynamics, by analogy with electrodynamics and chromodynamics.
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flavordynamics (uncountable)
- (physics, rare) The theory of the weak interaction in quantum physics.
- 2010, Armin Wachter, Relativistic Quantum Mechanics, page 177:
- Toiday it is assumed that all three types of interactions can be described by quantum field theories: the electromagnetic interaction by quantum electrodynamics, the strong one by quantum chromodynamics, and the weak one by quantum flavordynamics.