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A Dirac fermion can be analyzed as two Weyl fermions, with this quantity of the particle acting as a coupling constant between the chiralities. Unlike chirality, helicity is not Lorentz-invariant for particles with nonzero values of this quantity, as one can boost to a frame going faster than the particle to reverse its helicity. Mixing between flavor eigenstates and this quantity’s eigenstates causes (15[1])a process described by the PMNS matrix. The surface in k-space where the energy-momentum relation is satisfied is a (*) “shell” named after this quantity. The oscillation of neutrinos implies (10[1])they do not have a value of zero for this quantity, as once thought. A particle is relativistic when its kinetic energy exceeds the energy due to this property of the particle. For 10 points, for a particle at rest, E equals what quantity times c-squared? ■END■

ANSWER: mass [accept rest mass or invariant mass; accept neutrino mass; accept mass shell]
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