dyon
Sign in to saveAlso known as BIon
In physics, a dyon is a hypothetical particle in 4-dimensional theories with both electric and magnetic charges. A dyon with a zero electric charge is usually referred to as a magnetic monopole. Many Grand Unified Theories predict the existence of both magnetic monopoles and dyons.
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, dyon is referenced by 14 other articles, and connects out to magnetic monopole, physics and electricity.
It is catalogued under topics including Gauge theories, Magnetic monopoles and Physics beyond the Standard Model.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- References
- External links
In physics, a dyon is a hypothetical particle in 4-dimensional theories with both electric and magnetic charges. A dyon with a zero electric charge is usually referred to as a magnetic monopole. Many Grand Unified Theories predict the existence of both magnetic monopoles and dyons.
Dyons were first proposed by Julian Schwinger in 1969 as a phenomenological alternative to quarks. He extended the Dirac quantization condition to the dyon and used the model to predict the existence of a particle with the properties of the J/ψ meson prior to its discovery in 1974.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “dyon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.