A Majorana fermion (/maɪəˈrɑːnə/), also referred to as a Majorana particle, is a fermion that is its own antiparticle. They were hypothesised by Ettore...

varieties of fermions, with the three most common types being: Weyl fermions (massless), Dirac fermions (massive), and Majorana fermions (each its own...

ship from Palermo to Naples. The Majorana equation and Majorana fermions are named after him. In 2006, the Majorana Prize was established in his memory...

possible that the neutrino might be a Weyl fermion (it is now expected to be either a Dirac or a Majorana fermion). In condensed matter physics, some materials...

then properly be called fermions; fermions have the algebraic qualities of spinors. By general convention, the terms "fermion" and "spinor" are often...

each known fermion has its own distinct antiparticle. It is not known whether the neutrino is a Dirac fermion or a Majorana fermion. Fermions are the basic...

(surname), an Italian surname MAJORANA, a physics search for neutrinoless double-beta decay Majorana fermion Majorana Prize, a prize for theoretical...

description of a Dirac fermion Dirac–Kähler fermion, a geometric formulation of Dirac fermions Majorana fermion, an alternate category of fermion, possibly describing...

2-component Weyl spinor. It is not known whether the neutrino is a Majorana fermion or a Dirac fermion; observing neutrinoless double-beta decay experimentally...

other being fermions, which have odd half-integer spin (1⁄2, 3⁄2, 5⁄2, ...). Every observed subatomic particle is either a boson or a fermion. Some bosons...

distinct particles—twelve fermions and five bosons. As a consequence of flavor and color combinations and antimatter, the fermions and bosons are known to...

fermion–antifermion pair. As general rule, the Higgs is more likely to decay into heavy fermions than light fermions, because the mass of a fermion is...

as a means of describing fermions that are their own antiparticle. Particles corresponding to this equation are termed Majorana particles, although that...

fermions, neutral particles can be another type of spin  1 /2 particle called Majorana particles, named after the Italian physicist Ettore Majorana who...

resolve distinctive patterns of quasiparticle interference in Bi-2212. A Majorana fermion is a particle which equals its own antiparticle, and can emerge as...

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(73)90490-5. Salam, A.; et al. (1974). "On Goldstone fermion". Physics Letters. B49 (5): 465–467. Bibcode:1974PhLB...49..465S. doi:10...

{\displaystyle i,j} labels any Majorana fermion operators on equal footing (regardless their origin from Re or Im combination of complex fermion operators c α {\displaystyle...

real particles. Weyl fermions in matter are like phonons, which are also quasiparticles. No real particle that is a Weyl fermion has been found to exist...

are the same particle. If so, they would be Majorana fermions, whereas if not, they would be Dirac fermions. They are produced in beta decay and other...

neutrino were also its own antiparticle, then it would be the first Majorana fermion. In that case, it could annihilate with another neutrino, allowing...

Graviphoton Graviton Inflaton Leptoquark Magnetic monopole Majoron Majorana fermion Dark photon Preon Sterile neutrino Tachyon W′ and Z′ bosons X and Y...

Shaposhnikov of EPFL. "But GeV-to-keV-scale sterile neutrinos – so-called Majorana fermions – are well motivated theoretically and do not contradict any existing...

exist. Because baryons have an odd number of quarks, they are also all fermions, i.e., they have half-integer spin. As quarks possess baryon number B = 1⁄3...

zero temperature, the fermions fill up sufficient levels to accommodate all the available fermions—and in the case of many fermions, the maximum kinetic...

of 95+9 −3 MeV/c2. Like all quarks, the strange quark is an elementary fermion with spin 1/2, and experiences all four fundamental interactions: gravitation...

Graviphoton Graviton Inflaton Leptoquark Magnetic monopole Majoron Majorana fermion Dark photon Preon Sterile neutrino Tachyon W′ and Z′ bosons X and Y...

fields, which are more fundamental than the particles. These fields are the fermion fields, ψ, which account for "matter particles"; the electroweak boson...

particles that have rest mass and cannot overlap or combine which are called fermions. Experiments show that light could behave like a stream of particles (called...

the Standard Model as fermions (matter particles) and bosons (force-carrying particles). There are three generations of fermions, although ordinary matter...

particles of spin 1⁄2, known as fermions. Fermions respect the Pauli exclusion principle, meaning that two identical fermions cannot simultaneously occupy...