GIM

See also: gim and Gim

English

Etymology

Initialism of the surnames of Sheldon Glashow, John Iliopoulos, and Luciano Maiani, who published on the topic in 1970.

Proper noun

GIM

  1. (particle physics, attributive) The mechanism through which flavour-changing neutral currents (FCNCs) are suppressed in loop diagrams.
    GIM mechanism
    GIM suppression
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