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discovered in 2015 is also expected to be massless, but these are not actual particles. At one time neutrinos were thought to perhaps be Weyl fermions, but when they were discovered to have mass, that left no fundamental particles of the Weyl type.
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as they travel, at least two of the types of neutrinos must have mass (and cannot be Weyl fermions). The discovery of this phenomenon, known as
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Day, Charles (2015-10-07). "Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald share 2015 Physics Nobel".
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Su-Yang Xu; Ilya Belopolski; Nasser Alidoust; Madhab Neupane; et al. (16 July 2015).
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Valencia, G. (1992). "Anomalous gauge-boson couplings at hadron supercolliders".
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Debrescu, B.A. (2005). "Massless gauge bosons other than the photon".
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are massless, they can never be observed as free particles due to
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is zero. At present the only confirmed massless particle is the
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that are both believed to be massless; the other is the
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were originally thought to be massless – and possibly
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