photon
Elementary particle, the carrier and quantum of electromagnetism
- Instance of
- Subclass of
- Part of
Overview
All data
115 statements · 27% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Antiparticle
- photon statement is subject of: real neutral particle
- Has superpartner
- photino
1
Sources- 1.“Particles and Fundamental Interactions: An Introduction to Particle Physics”
- photino
- Electric charge
- 0 elementary charge
- Mean lifetime
- 1 infinity statement is subject of: stable elementary particle
- Decays to
- none statement is subject of: stable elementary particle · decay mode: none
- Mass
- 0 electronvolt per speed of light squared statement supported by: theory
- 1e-21 electronvolt per speed of light squared statement supported by: measurement
- Members / parts
- none statement is subject of: elementary particle
- Half-life
- 1 infinity statement is subject of: stable elementary particle
- Different from
- Foton criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: foton
- Fotão criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: fotão
- Photon criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: Photon
- Discovered
- 1923
- Named by
- Gilbert N. Lewis(1926) applies to name of subject: φῶς
- Albert Einstein applies to name of subject: das Lichtquant
- Notation
- Γ
- hν used by: chemistry, optical engineering
On other databases
52 identifiers linking photon across the web's reference databases
- Arab Encyclopedia concept ID1012
- Australian Educational Vocabulary IDscot/9539
- BBC Things ID265c8741-78d9-4e31-a846-30434ac11a5c
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID11979547h
- BNCF Thesaurus ID19366
- Brilliant Wiki IDare-photons-mass-less
- ChEBI ID30212
- Dewey Decimal Classification539.7217
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDscience/photon
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)4TIzCE
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)215506
- Fandom article IDmemory-alpha:Photon
- Freebase ID/m/05v_l
- GND ID4045922-6
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDfoton
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal IDfoton-12c525
- Gujarati Vishwakosh entryફોટૉન
- IdRef ID027840611
- IEV number113-05-14
- IUPAC Gold Book IDP04627
- J9U entity ID987007543630305171
- JSTOR topic ID (archived)photons
- KBpedia IDPhoton
- Larousse IDdivers/photon/79371
- Lex IDfoton
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh85101398
- MeSH descriptor IDD017785
- MeSH tree codeG01.249.705
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)159317903
- Namuwiki ID광자
- NDL Authority ID00566716
- NicoNicoPedia word article IDフォトン
- NL CR AUT IDph137951
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning8299
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID3902271
- OpenAlex IDC159317903
- Pixiv Encyclopedia ID光子
- PSH ID3520
- RationalWiki IDPhoton
- ScienceDirect topic IDphysics-and-astronomy/photons
- SVKKL authority IDh0005202-fotony
- Treccani IDfotone
- UMLS CUIC0086805
- Vikidia article IDfr:Photon
- WikiSkripta article ID58681
- Wolfram Language entity codeEntity["Particle", "Photon"]
- Wolfram Language unit code"Photons"
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID09414116-n
- World of Physics IDPhoton
- Yale LUX IDconcept/e1372bba-4d83-4203-a5a9-6cf0fbb04e14
- YSO ID2063
- Zhihu topic ID19651797