Timeline for How do massless particles have the same chirality and helicity when they are different properties?
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| S May 14, 2022 at 19:48 | history | suggested | Shiki Ryougi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Improved grammar and format of the question
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| May 14, 2022 at 19:42 | answer | added | Cosmas Zachos | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 14, 2022 at 14:32 | comment | added | ACuriousMind♦ | related: physics.stackexchange.com/q/232591/50583 | |
| May 14, 2022 at 14:16 | comment | added | John Rennie | I think the Wikipedia article means that for massless particles the chirality and helicity are always left, left or right, right and not that the chirality and helicity eigenvalues are the same. | |
| May 14, 2022 at 13:56 | comment | added | Cosmas Zachos | For massless particles, the eigenstates of helicity are also those of the two chirality projection operators. The "how" is explained in QFT texts describing Dirac spinors. Are you comfortable with those solutions of the Dirac equation? | |
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| May 14, 2022 at 13:32 | history | asked | Jungwoon Song | CC BY-SA 4.0 |