Friday, December 6, 2019

particle physics - Chirality vs Handedness


It seems to me that the terms attributing a particle




left- or right-chiral



and



left- or right-handed



are used pretty much interchangeably. Today a colleague argued that strictly speaking this is not correct. Supposedly chirality is the physical concept and handedness is the mathematical concept. Can somebody elaborate on this and explain the difference?




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