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A New Light Boson?
Physical Review Letters · 1978 · Vol. 40(4) · pp. 223–226
Steven Weinberg✉(Harvard University)
Abstract
It is pointed out that a global U(1) symmetry, that has been introduced in order to preserve the parity and time-reversal invariance of strong interactions despite the effects of instantons, would lead to a neutral pseudoscalar boson, the "axion," with mass roughly of order 100 keV to 1 MeV. Experimental implications are discussed.
Dark Matter and Cosmic PhenomenaParticle physics theoretical and experimental studiesQuantum Chromodynamics and Particle InteractionsPhysicsPseudoscalarAxionParity (physics)Particle physicsBosonInstantonSymmetry (geometry)Order (exchange)Theoretical physics
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