Which Are Their Own Antiparticles?

One particle that is its own antiparticle is the photon, a particle of light. Another is the neutral pion, which is made up of quark-antiquark pairs, and the gluon, which glues quarks together.

Are photons their own antiparticles?

Some particles, such as the photon, are their own antiparticle. ... The other (usually given the prefix "anti-") is designated the antiparticle. Particle–antiparticle pairs can annihilate each other, producing photons; since the charges of the particle and antiparticle are opposite, total charge is conserved.

Who is the owner of antimatter?

The modern theory of antimatter began in 1928, with a paper by Paul Dirac. Dirac realised that his relativistic version of the Schrödinger wave equation for electrons predicted the possibility of antielectrons. These were discovered by Carl D. Anderson in 1932 and named positrons from "positive electron".