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  2. Chirality (physics) - Wikipedia

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    Many pieces of the Standard Model of physics are non-chiral, which is traceable to anomaly cancellation in chiral theories. Quantum chromodynamics is an example of a vector theory, since both chiralities of all quarks appear in the theory, and couple to gluons in the same way.

  3. Chirality - Wikipedia

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    Chirality (/ k aɪ ˈ r æ l ɪ t i /) is a property of asymmetry important in several branches of science. The word chirality is derived from the Greek χείρ (kheir), "hand", a familiar chiral object. An object or a system is chiral if it is distinguishable from its mirror image; that is, it cannot be superposed (not to be confused with ...

  4. Mathematical formulation of the Standard Model - Wikipedia

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    In this case a new Majorana mass term is added to the Yukawa sector: = (¯ + ¯) where C denotes a charge conjugated (i.e. anti-) particle, and the terms are consistently all left (or all right) chirality (note that a left-chirality projection of an antiparticle is a right-handed field; care must be taken here due to different notations ...

  5. Grand Unified Theory - Wikipedia

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    Non-chiral extensions of the Standard Model with vectorlike split-multiplet particle spectra which naturally appear in the higher SU(N) GUTs considerably modify the desert physics and lead to the realistic (string-scale) grand unification for conventional three quark-lepton families even without using supersymmetry (see below). On the other ...

  6. Type II string theory - Wikipedia

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    At low energies, type IIA string theory is described by type IIA supergravity in ten dimensions which is a non-chiral theory (i.e. left–right symmetric) with (1,1) d=10 supersymmetry; the fact that the anomalies in this theory cancel is therefore trivial.

  7. Sterile neutrino - Wikipedia

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    (See Chirality (physics) § Chirality and helicity for the difference.) Chirality is a fundamental property of particles and is relativistically invariant: It is the same regardless of the particle's speed and mass in every inertial reference frame. [12]

  8. Chiral anomaly - Wikipedia

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    It is possible that other imbalances have been caused by breaking of a chiral law of this kind. Many physicists suspect that the fact that the observable universe contains more matter than antimatter is caused by a chiral anomaly. [1] Research into chiral symmetry breaking laws is a major endeavor in particle physics research at this time.

  9. Magnetic skyrmion - Wikipedia

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    Fig. 1 The vector field of two-dimensional magnetic skyrmions: a) a hedgehog skyrmion and b) a spiral skyrmion. In physics, magnetic skyrmions (occasionally described as 'vortices,' [1] or 'vortex-like' [2] configurations) are statically stable solitons which have been predicted theoretically [1] [3] [4] and observed experimentally [5] [6] [7] in condensed matter systems.