Spin in Particle Physics
Published on 6. October 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
528 pages
978-0-521-02077-0 (ISBN)
Description
Motivated by recent dramatic developments in the field, this book provides a thorough introduction to spin and its role in elementary particle physics. Starting with a simple pedagogical introduction to spin and its relativistic generalisation, the author successfully avoids the obscurity and impenetrability of traditional treatments of the subject. The book surveys the main theoretical and experimental developments, as well as discussing exciting plans for the future. Emphasis is placed on the importance of spin-dependent measurements in testing QCD and the Standard Model. This book will be of value to graduate students and researchers working in all areas of quantum physics and particularly in elementary particle and high energy physics. It is suitable as a supplementary text for graduate courses in theoretical and experimental particle physics.
Reviews / Votes
'The strong point is, as might be expected from Professor Leader's lifetime interest in the subject, the pedagogical aspects and the clear exposition of formalism throughout. The book will appeal to graduate students and experimentalists working in the field who need clear guidance in the spin dependent aspects of the electroweak Standard Model and QCD.' Contemporary PhysicsMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
132 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 168 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
831 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-02077-0 (9780521020770)
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Elliot Leader is Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College, London. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and in 1967 became Professor of Theoretical Physics at Westfield College, London. In 1984 he took up the Chair of Theoretical Physics at Birkbeck College, London, where he worked for 16 years. Professor Leader has done research in universities and laboratories throughout the world, including CERN, Brookhaven, Fermilab, California Institute of Technology and the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley.
Content
Preface; 1. Spin and helicity; 2. The effect of Lorentz and discrete transformations on helicity states, fields and wave-functions; 3. The spin density matrix; 4. Transition amplitudes; 5. The observables of a reaction; 6. The production of polarized hadrons; 7. The production of polarized e+/-; 8. Analysis of polarized states: polarimetry; 9. Electroweak interactions; 10. Quantum chromodynamics: spin in the world of massless partons; 11. The spin of the nucleon: polarized deep inelastic scattering; 12. Two-spin and parity-violating single spin asymmetries at large scale; 13. One particle inclusive transverse single-spin asymmetries; 14. Elastic scattering at high energies; Appendices.