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The Boson Fermion Correspondence

Jouko Mickelsson

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Massless particlePhysicsParticle physicsFermion doublingHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyMatter waveFermionScalar bosonNeutrinoInteracting boson modelBoson

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In 1932 Louis de Broglie suggested that photons could be constructed from pairs of neutrinos [de Broglie, 1932]. Both are massless particles (except for some recent unconfirmed experiments according to which the neutrino could have a very small mass) and are electrically neutral. The main difference between free photons and free neutrinos is that the former obeys Bose statistics and the second Fermi statistics. The spin of a photon is 1 and the spin of a neutrino is 1/2 and therefore kinematically it should be possible to think of a photon as a neutrino pair. However, this old formulation of boson fermion equivalence has not been very fruitful in particle physics. Instead, there has been a lot of work on certain quantum field theory models in 1+1 space-time dimensions which admit equivalent formulations in terms of bosonic or fermionic fields.

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1989-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0295-8_8