Imagine a system in local thermal equilibrium at temperature T which contains both massless spin-1/2 particles (Weyl fermions) and massless spin-1 particles, both with vanishing chemical potential. For which particle species will the contribution to the energy density be larger? (a) Spin-1/2 particles (b) Spin-1 particles (c) They will be equal (d) Not enough information

Imagine a system in local thermal equilibrium at temperature T which contains both massless spin-1/2 particles (Weyl fermions) and massless spin-1 particles, both with vanishing chemical potential. For which particle species will the contribution to the energy density be larger? (a) Spin-1/2 particles (b) Spin-1 particles (c) They will be equal (d) Not enough information

Chemistry

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Chapter1: Chemical Foundations

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