notoph

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Etymology

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Phonetic reversal of photon; introduced in the 1960s by Ogievetskii and Polubarinov.

Noun

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notoph (plural notophs)

  1. (physics) A hypothetical particle with helicity properties complementary to those of a photon.
    • 2015, Valeriy V. Dvoeglazov, “Tensor Fields in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics”, in arXiv[1]:
      We analize the quantum field theory taking into account the mass dimensions of the notoph and the photon.

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