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    associated with an antiparticle with the same mass but with opposite physical charges (such as electric charge). For example, the antiparticle of the electron...
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    process that occurs when a subatomic particle collides with its respective antiparticle to produce other particles, such as an electron colliding with a positron...
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    mass 493.677±0.013 MeV and mean lifetime (1.2380±0.0020)×10−8 s. K+ (antiparticle of above) positively charged (containing an up quark and a strange antiquark)...
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    muon neutrino, tauon and tauon neutrino), along with the corresponding antiparticle of each of these. Mathematically, there are many varieties of fermions...
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    Particles have corresponding antiparticles with the same mass but with opposite electric charges. For example, the antiparticle of the electron is the positron...
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  • General antiparticle spectrometer (GAPS) is a planned experiment that will use a high-altitude balloon flying in Antarctica to look for antideuteron particles...
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    matter that is composed of the antiparticles of those that constitute ordinary matter. If a particle and its antiparticle come into contact with each other...
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    In modern physics, antimatter is defined as matter composed of the antiparticles (or "partners") of the corresponding particles in "ordinary" matter,...
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  • backwards. Wheeler suggested that these backwards sections appeared as the antiparticle to the electron, the positron. Many more electrons have been observed...
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  • C {\displaystyle {\mathcal {C}}} that transforms a particle into its antiparticle, C | ψ ⟩ = | ψ ¯ ⟩ . {\displaystyle {\mathcal {C}}\,|\psi \rangle =|{\bar...
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  • fermion is a spin-½ particle (a fermion) which is different from its antiparticle. A vast majority of fermions fall under this category. In particle physics...
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    neutrinos. For every lepton flavor, there is a corresponding type of antiparticle, known as an antilepton, that differs from the lepton only in that some...
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  • also Dirac fermions; that is, each known fermion has its own distinct antiparticle. It is not known whether the neutrino is a Dirac fermion or a Majorana...
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    (the same as the electron), and the same mass as an electron. It is the antiparticle (antimatter counterpart) of the electron. When a positron collides with...
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  • rays. Photons can also be emitted when a particle and its corresponding antiparticle are annihilated (for example, electron–positron annihilation).: 572, 1114...
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    physics, crossing is the property of scattering amplitudes that allows antiparticles to be interpreted as particles going backwards in time. Crossing states...
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    left-handed components of particles and right-handed components of antiparticles participate in weak interactions in the Standard Model. A consequence...
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  • containing bottom quarks include: B mesons contain a bottom quark (or its antiparticle) and an up or down quark. B c and B s mesons contain a bottom quark along...
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  • gravitation, electromagnetism, weak interactions, and strong interactions. The antiparticle of the up quark is the up antiquark (sometimes called antiup quark or...
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  • in physics, is an effect that occurs when a particle collides with an antiparticle. Annihilation may also refer to: Annihilation (comics), a Marvel Comics...
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    accelerators). For every quark flavor there is a corresponding type of antiparticle, known as an antiquark, that differs from the quark only in that some...
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  • simply empty space. Rather, it contains short-lived virtual particle–antiparticle pairs (leptons or quarks and gluons). These short-lived pairs are called...
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    converted into a proton, an electron, and an electron antineutrino (the antiparticle of the neutrino): n → p + e− + ν e This process is mediated by the weak...
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    fermionic antiparticles that correspond to these 12 particles. For example, the antielectron (positron) e+ is the electron's antiparticle and has an...
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  • Recycling antimatter pertains to recycling antiprotons and antihydrogen atoms. Riesselmann, Kurt (February 1, 2002). "Recycling Antimatter Becomes Reality"...
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  • gravitation, electromagnetism, weak interactions, and strong interactions. The antiparticle of the strange quark is the strange antiquark (sometimes called antistrange...
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    also referred to as a Majorana particle, is a fermion that is its own antiparticle. They were hypothesised by Ettore Majorana in 1937. The term is sometimes...
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    spectroscopy for the photon radiation produced when a particle and its antiparticle collide and annihilate. Most commonly, this refers to 511-keV photons...
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  • own antiparticle. In other words, it remains itself under the charge conjugation, which replaces particles with their corresponding antiparticles. All...
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    spin of ⁠ 1 /2⁠. For each neutrino, there also exists a corresponding antiparticle, called an antineutrino, which also has spin of ⁠ 1 /2⁠ and no electric...
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