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- noun physics A
quantity that behaves like ascalar , but changessign under a parity inversion
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He was best known for his eponymous effect, which, among other things, describes the production of neutral pseudoscalar mesons by the interaction of a photon with a virtual photon in the Coulomb field of a heavy nucleus.
Peebles and Primakoff Mark 2009
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The axion is a “pseudoscalar” (changes sign under parity), and couples to electromagnetism in a particular way, so that photons can convert into axions in a strong magnetic field.
Particle physics marches on Sean 2006
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A chiral background pseudoscalar field diverges Big Bang evolution of matter and antimatter.
The Reference Frame 2010
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Parity-odd spacetime would manifest as a background pseudoscalar field.
The Reference Frame 2010
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