• In physics, helicity is the projection of the spin onto the direction of momentum. Mathematically, helicity is the sign of the projection of the spin vector...
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  • operator with the helicity operator. Since the helicity of massive particles is frame-dependent, it might seem that the same particle would interact with...
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  • electron's spin responds to the field. Chirality (physics) Dynamic nuclear polarization Helicity (particle physics) Holstein–Primakoff transformation Kramers'...
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  • corkscrew-like motion occurs Helicity (particle physics), the projection of the spin onto the direction of momentum Magnetic helicity, the extent to which a...
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    Neutrino (redirect from Ν particle)
    of a massive particle is not a constant of motion; helicity is, but the chirality operator does not share eigenstates with the helicity operator. Free...
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  • hypothesized microscopic particles in particle physics, condensed matter physics and cosmology. Elementary particles are particles with no measurable internal...
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    Antiparticle (redirect from Anti-particle)
    In particle physics, every type of particle of "ordinary" matter (as opposed to antimatter) is associated with an antiparticle with the same mass but with...
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  • In particle physics, tracking is the process of reconstructing the trajectory (or track) of electrically charged particles in a particle detector known...
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  • This is a list of hypothetical subatomic particles in physics. Some theories predict the existence of additional elementary bosons and fermions that are...
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    Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the quantum excitation of...
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  • In plasma physics, magnetic helicity is a measure of the linkage, twist, and writhe of a magnetic field. Magnetic helicity is a useful concept in the analysis...
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    research in particle physics. Accelerators are also used as synchrotron light sources for the study of condensed matter physics. Smaller particle accelerators...
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  • In particle physics, flavour or flavor refers to the species of an elementary particle. The Standard Model counts six flavours of quarks and six flavours...
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  • Relativistic quantum mechanics (category Particle physics)
    fields; one is for the particle in one helicity state corresponding to +s and the other for the antiparticle in the opposite helicity state corresponding...
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  • {\displaystyle h} , helicity Φ {\displaystyle \Phi } , magnetic flux x {\displaystyle \mathbf {x} } , the position of a particle in three-space v {\displaystyle...
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    In particle physics a Majorana fermion (/maɪəˈrɑːnə/) or Majorana particle is a fermion that is its own antiparticle. They were hypothesised by Ettore...
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    In particle physics, a pion (/ˈpaɪ.ɒn/, PIE-on) or pi meson, denoted with the Greek letter pi (π), is any of three subatomic particles: π0 , π+ , and...
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  • Photon (redirect from Light particle)
    Einstein's approach. In the Standard Model of particle physics, photons and other elementary particles are described as a necessary consequence of physical...
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    Quantum field theory (category Mathematical physics)
    mechanics.: xi  QFT is used in particle physics to construct physical models of subatomic particles and in condensed matter physics to construct models of quasiparticles...
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  • quantity Some kinds of helicity are conserved in dissipationless limit: hydrodynamical helicity, magnetic helicity, cross-helicity. Principle of mutability...
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  • Sterile neutrino (category Hypothetical elementary particles)
    suggests new, unknown physics. This unexpected mass explains neutrinos with right-handed helicity and antineutrinos with left-handed helicity: Since they do...
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    Lepton (category Elementary particles)
    visualized property called helicity. The helicity of a particle is the direction of its spin relative to its momentum; particles with spin in the same direction...
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  • MHV may refer to: MHV Amplitudes (particle physics) - maximally helicity violating amplitudes MHV connector (electronics) - miniature high voltage RF connector...
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    Chirality (section Physics)
    particle the helicity is the same as the chirality while for an antiparticle they have opposite sign. The handedness in both chirality and helicity relate to...
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    In theoretical particle physics, maximally helicity violating amplitudes (MHV) are amplitudes with n {\displaystyle n} massless external gauge bosons,...
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    Beta decay (category Nuclear physics)
    In nuclear physics, beta decay (β-decay) is a type of radioactive decay in which an atomic nucleus emits a beta particle (fast energetic electron or positron)...
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  • In theoretical physics, a continuous spin particle (CSP), sometimes called an infinite spin particle, is a massless particle never observed before in...
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    In physics, the motion of an electrically charged particle such as an electron or ion in a plasma in a magnetic field can be treated as the superposition...
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    perspective of condensed matter physics, polymer physics was originally a branch of statistical physics. Polymer physics and polymer chemistry are also...
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    Electron (redirect from Beta minus particle)
    property of elementary particles known as helicity. The electron has no known substructure. Nevertheless, in condensed matter physics, spin–charge separation...
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