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Dirac adjoint

The Dirac adjoint \bar\psi of a Dirac spinor \ \psi is defined to be the dual spinor \ \psi^{\dagger} \gamma_0, where \ \gamma_0 denotes the time-like Dirac matrix.

Using the Dirac adjoint, the probability density for a spin-1/2 particle field can be written as

\rho = \bar\psi \psi

See also: Dirac equation.

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