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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Annihilation (redirect from Particle–antiparticle annihilation)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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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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Photon (section Antiparticle annihilation)
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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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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Elementary particle (section Antiparticles)
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 (redirect from Recycling antiparticles)
Recycling antimatter pertains to recycling antiprotons and antihydrogen atoms. Riesselmann, Kurt (February 1, 2002). "Recycling Antimatter Becomes Reality"...
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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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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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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 strange quark is the strange antiquark (sometimes called antistrange...
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electron neutrino. 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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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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identified as the muon neutrino. The electron neutrino has a corresponding antiparticle, the electron antineutrino ( ν e), which differs only in that some of...
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antiquark's baryon numbers cancel. Each type of baryon has a corresponding antiparticle (antibaryon) in which quarks are replaced by their corresponding antiquarks...
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collisions, for instance, when cosmic rays enter the atmosphere. The antiparticle of the electron is called the positron; it is identical to the electron...
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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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energy and time, a single photon can briefly form a virtual particle-antiparticle pair, that influences the point charge. This effect is called vacuum...
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elementary particles with half-integer spin, the tau has a corresponding antiparticle of opposite charge but equal mass and spin. In the tau's case, this is...
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