Particles and antiparticles

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العنوان: Particles and antiparticles
المؤلفون: Horváth, Dezső, Trócsányi, Zoltán
المصدر: Modern Phys. Lett. A 38 (2023), no. 36-37, Paper No. 2350159
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
مصطلحات موضوعية: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Experiment
الوصف: We review the concept of chirality and charge for particles and antiparticles. We point out that the commonly accepted equivalence of particles and antiparticles - with difference only in the opposite signs of their charges, which follows from the CPT invariance - is valid only for free non-chiral particles. We show that with the weak interaction turned on the equivalence of particles and antiparticles is violated. We also discuss that within the Standard Model even free neutrinos are exceptions, they can be produced only in chiral states. We conclude that in spite of a long history of antiparticles, interesting theoretical and experimental challenges remain in their complete understanding.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.10231
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2304.10231
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv