Particles, Sources, And Fields, Volume 1
1st Edition
Published on 6. November 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
444 pages
978-0-7382-0053-8 (ISBN)
Description
This classic, the first of three volumes, presents techniques that emphasize the unity of high-energy particle physics with electrodynamics, gravitational theory, and many-particle cooperative phenomena. What emerges is a theory intermediate in position between operator field theory and S-matrix theory, which rejects the dogmas of each and gains thereby a calculational ease and intuitiveness that make it a worthy contender to displace the earlier formulations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
670 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7382-0053-8 (9780738200538)
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Person
Julian Schwinger (1918-1994) was born in New York City. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University in 1939. He also received honourary doctorates in science from Purdue, Brandeis, Harvard, and Gustavus Adolphus College. He taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 1972 until his death. In 1965, Dr. Schwinger received (with Richard Feynman and Sin Itiro Tomonaga) the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in quantum electrodynamics. A National Research Foundation Fellow (1939-1940) and a Guggenheim Fellow (1970), he was the recipient of many awards, including: the First Einstein Prize Award for Physics (1964), and the American Academy of Achievement Award (1987).
Content
Particles * Unitary Transformations * Galilean Relativity * Einsteinian Relativity * Critique of Particle Theory Sources * Spin 0 Particles. Weak Source * Spin 0 Particles. Strong Source * Spin 1 Particles. The Photon * Spin 2 Particles. The Gravitron * Particles with Arbitrary Integer Spin * Spin Particles. Fermi-Dirac Statistics * More About Spin Particles Neutrinos * Particles of Integer + Spin * Unification of All Spins and Statistics Fields * The Field Concept. Spin 0 Particles * The Field Concept. Spin Particles * Some Other Spin Values * Multispinor Fields * Action * Invariance Transformations and Fluxes. Charge * Invariance Transformations and Fluxes. Mechanical Properties * The Electromagnetic Field. Magnetic Charge * Charge Quantization. Mass Normalization * Primitive Electromagnetic Interactions and Source Models * Extended Sources. Soft Photons * Interaction Skeleton. Scattering Cross Sections * Spin Processes * Sources as Scatterers * H-Particles * Instability and Multiparticle Exchange * The Gravitational Field