Helicity

Rarity: Uncommon

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What Wikipedia says

In physics, helicity is the projection of the spin onto the direction of momentum.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Helicity (particle physics)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Helix_diagram.png: Y tambe derivative work: Imalipusram, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.