📚 noun • entry_id 46906
helicity
Meanings (ES + gloss)
helicidad
The quantized spin component of a moving particle along the direction of its motion.
1989, John Taylor, 17: Gauge theories in particle physics, Paul Davies, The New Physics, Cambridge University Press, 1992, 1st Paperback Edition, page 467, To understand this name,…
The experiment was particularly ingenious because, as the neutrino hardly interacts with matter, some way of indirectly measuring its helicity had to be devised.
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