Wednesday 11 October 2017

particle physics - What parity has an electron?


I couldn't find anything about the parity of an electron. Neither in the german, nor in the spanish and nor in the english version of Wikipedia.


I only found one sentence in the parity article of Wiki:



One way to fix a standard parity operator is to assign the parities of three particles with linearly independent charges B, L and Q. In general one assigns the parity of the most common massive particles, the proton, the neutron and the electron, to be +1. - Wiki




But I cannot find other sources to confirm it.


I do not need it for a special exercise, it's just to understand the whole thing...



Answer



spin 1/2 fermions (electron, proton, neutron, muon, tau, quarks) have +1 parity (by convention as pointed out in Anna's comment). The corresponding anti-fermions have -1 parity.


Bosons and their anti-particles have the same parity.


See this and this lecture for more information on parity.


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