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Dressed particle

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In radiobiology, a dressed particle is a bare particle together with its Debye sphere that neutralizes its electric charge.

In theoretical physics, the term dressed particle refers to a bare particle together with some excitations of other quantum fields that are physically inseparable from the bare particle.

For example, a dressed electron include the chaotic dynamics of electron-positron pairs and photons surrounding the original electron.