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Spin Makes up Bosons and Fermions

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So far we have been ignoring particle characteristics such as spin, helicity and chirality. We will view these characteristics from a wave perspective instead of the (in quantum mechanics) more usual particle perspective.

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Schmitz, W. (2019). Spin Makes up Bosons and Fermions. In: Particles, Fields and Forces. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12878-4_12

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