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So I read this article about chirality and helicity and. At some point it says "For massless particles, chirality is the same as helicity".

For massless particles, chirality is the same as helicity.

But as far as I know, helicity takes form in numbers, (-1/2$(-1/2, +1/2)$, +1/2) while chirality takes form in left or right (left chiral, right chiral). So how do these two different properties become the same?

Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality_(physics)#:~:text=A%20chiral%20phenomenon%20is%20one,is%20the%20same%20as%20chirality.

So I read this article about chirality and helicity and it says "For massless particles, chirality is the same as helicity". But as far as I know, helicity takes form in numbers (-1/2, +1/2) while chirality takes form in left or right (left chiral, right chiral). So how do these two different properties become the same?

Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality_(physics)#:~:text=A%20chiral%20phenomenon%20is%20one,is%20the%20same%20as%20chirality.

I read this article about chirality and helicity. At some point it says

For massless particles, chirality is the same as helicity.

But as far as I know, helicity takes form in numbers, $(-1/2, +1/2)$, while chirality takes form in left or right (left chiral, right chiral). So how do these two different properties become the same?

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How do massless particles have the same chirality and helicity when they are different properties?

So I read this article about chirality and helicity and it says "For massless particles, chirality is the same as helicity". But as far as I know, helicity takes form in numbers (-1/2, +1/2) while chirality takes form in left or right (left chiral, right chiral). So how do these two different properties become the same?

Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality_(physics)#:~:text=A%20chiral%20phenomenon%20is%20one,is%20the%20same%20as%20chirality.