"proto-photon" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1966, Michael M. Hare, Microcosm and macrocosm:",
          "text": "Since the proto-photon has no charge, it does not seem likely that we could detect such \"orbital\" motion for the electron-photon system.",
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          "ref": "2007, Acta Physica Polonica - Volume 38, Issues 5-6, page 2080:",
          "text": "Notice that here we slightly deviate from traditional VMD-2 because we include a direct coupling between the pions and the proto-photon.",
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          "ref": "2012, M. G. Bowler, Femtophysics: A Short Course on Particle Physics, →ISBN, page viii:",
          "text": "It is shown how the assumption that a singlet gauge boson (a proto-photon) and the neutral member of a triplet W=t° are mixed leads to the identification of the couplings of the quarks and leptons to the neutral intermediate boson Z°.",
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