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In particle physics, a massless particle is an elementary particle whose invariant mass is zero. The two known massless particles are both gauge bosons: the photon (carrier of electromagnetism) and the gluon (carrier of the strong force). However, gluons are never observed as free particles, since they are confined within hadrons. Neutrinos were originally thought to be massless. However.
Asymptotic completeness for the massless spin-boson model W. De Roeck1 Institute of Theoretical Physics Celestijnenlaan 200D, B3000 Leuven, Belgium M. Griesemer2 Department of Mathematics Universit at Stuttgart Pfa enwaldring 57 D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany A. Kupiainen3 Department of Mathematics University of Helsinki P.O. Box 68, FIN-00014, Finland Abstract.
A real (i.e. not virtual) massless spin-1 boson can exist in two transverse polarization states, a massive spin-1 boson also can be longitudinally polarized Boson wave-functions are written in terms of the polarization four-vector For a spin-1 boson travelling along the z-axis, the polarization four vectors are: transverse longitudinal transverse.
But bosons also exist as massless virtual particles. It is in this virtual state that they are implicated in research on invisibility and metamaterials. A boson producing the collective excitation of the electron’s spin wave structure in a crystal lattice is known as a magnon (a massless boson). A phonon is also a boson. A phonon is a.