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    The dark photon (also hidden, heavy, para-, or secluded photon) is a hypothetical hidden sector particle, proposed as a force carrier similar to the photon...
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  • A photon (from Ancient Greek φῶς, φωτός (phôs, phōtós) 'light') is an elementary particle that is a quantum of the electromagnetic field, including electromagnetic...
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  • Phaethon, first king of the Bronze Age Molossians Dark photon, also called phaeton, a hypothetical dark matter particle Phaethon, genus name of the three...
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  • thought of as resulting from the exchange of virtual photons between the charges. Virtual photons are the exchange particles for the electromagnetic interaction...
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    bosons (spin = 1) that act as force carriers. These are the gauge bosons: γ Photon – the force carrier of the electromagnetic field g Gluons (eight different...
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  • mass is zero. At present the only confirmed massless particle is the photon. The photon (carrier of electromagnetism) is one of two known gauge bosons that...
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  • particle. For instance, with two copies of supersymmetry in four dimensions, a photon would have two fermion superpartners and a scalar superpartner.[citation...
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  • plausible dark matter axion masses and couplings. The experiment is designed to detect the weak conversion of dark matter axions into microwave photons in the...
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  • to the way photons mediate electromagnetic interactions between particles in the Standard Model (called baryonic matter in cosmology), dark radiation is...
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    In theoretical physics, the dual photon is a hypothetical elementary particle that is a dual of the photon under electric–magnetic duality which is predicted...
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  • interaction is mediated by the W and Z bosons, electromagnetism by the photon, and gravity by the graviton, which is still hypothetical. The graviton...
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  • a hypothetical subatomic particle, the fermion WIMP superpartner of the photon predicted by supersymmetry. It is an example of a gaugino. Even though no...
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    each other by the exchange of gauge bosons, usually as virtual particles. Photons, W and Z bosons, and gluons are gauge bosons. All known gauge bosons have...
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    elementary particles exist in the visible universe (not including dark matter), mostly photons and other massless force carriers. The Standard Model of particle...
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    elementary particles, except the photon and gluon, are massive. In particular, the Higgs boson explains why the photon has no mass, while the W and Z bosons...
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  • discrete energies for photons. These both indicate particle behavior. Despite confirmation by various experimental observations, the photon theory (as it came...
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    A single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD), also called Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode (G-APD or GM-APD) is a solid-state photodetector within the same family...
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  • mainstream physics. Forms of matter that are poorly understood, such as dark matter and mirror matter. Ordinary matter that when placed under high pressure...
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  • gravitino is the fermion mediating supergravity interactions, just as the photon is mediating electromagnetism, and the graviton is presumably mediating...
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    Matter (section Dark)
    mass and volume. However it does not include massless particles such as photons, or other energy phenomena or waves such as light or heat.: 21  Matter...
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    Graviphoton Graviton Inflaton Leptoquark Magnetic monopole Majoron Majorana fermion Dark photon Preon Sterile neutrino Tachyon W′ and Z′ bosons X and Y bosons...
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  • hypothetical mediating particles in this class of theories include the dark photon, sterile neutrino, and axion. In many cases, hidden sectors include a...
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  • vector bosons; the situation differs for massless particles such as the photon, for reasons beyond the scope of this article. See Wigner's classification...
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  • Hegarty; Keith, Potter; Emanuele, Quercigh (1992). Joint International Lepton-photon Symposium And Europhysics Conference On High Energy Physics - Lp-hep '91...
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    Graviphoton Graviton Inflaton Leptoquark Magnetic monopole Majoron Majorana fermion Dark photon Preon Sterile neutrino Tachyon W′ and Z′ bosons X and Y bosons...
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  • tensor, a second-order tensor (compared with electromagnetism's spin-1 photon, the source of which is the four-current, a first-order tensor). Additionally...
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  • Graviphoton Graviton Inflaton Leptoquark Magnetic monopole Majoron Majorana fermion Dark photon Preon Sterile neutrino Tachyon W′ and Z′ bosons X and Y bosons...
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    which became embedded into the distribution of matter when photons decoupled. Unlike dark matter, ordinary matter can lose energy by many routes, which...
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    quasiparticles resulting from strong coupling of electromagnetic waves (photon) with an electric or magnetic dipole-carrying excitation (state) of solid...
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    symmetries allow the reinterpretation of several known particles, including the photon, W and Z bosons, and gluon, as different states of a single particle field...
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