notoph

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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 analyze the quantum field theory with taking into account mass dimensions of the notoph and the photon.

Anagrams

• Hopton, photon