- 188 pages
- English
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Theory of Fundamental Processes
About this book
This book considers the basic ideas of quantum mechanics, treating the concept of amplitude and discusses relativity and the idea of anti-particles and explains quantum electrodynamics. It provides experienced researchers with an invaluable introduction to fundamental processes.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Editor’s Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Review of the Principles of Quantum Mechanics
- 2 Spin and Statistics
- 3 Rotations and Angular Momentum
- 4 Rules of Composition of Angular Momentum
- 5 Relativity
- 6 Electromagnetic and Fermi Couplings
- 7 Fermi Couplings and the Failure of Parity
- 8 Pion-Nucleon Coupling
- 9 Strange Particles
- 10 Some Consequences of Strangeness
- 11 Strong Coupling Schemes
- 12 Decay of Strange Particles
- 13 The Question of a Universal Coupling Coefficient
- 14 Rules for Strangeness Changing Decays: Experiments
- 15 Fundamental laws of Electromagnetics and β-Decay Coupling
- 16 Density of Final States
- 17 The Propagator for Scalar Particles
- 18 The Propagator in Configuration Space
- 19 Particles of Spin 1
- 20 Virtual and Real Photons
- 21 Problems
- 22 Spin–1/2 Particles
- 23 Extension of Finite Mass
- 24 Properties of the Four-Component Spinor
- 25 The Compton Effect
- 26 Direct Pair Production by Muons
- 27 Higher-Order Processes
- 28 Self-Energy of the Electron
- 29 Quantum Electrodynamics
- 30 Meson Theory
- 31 Theory of β Decay
- 32 Properties of the β-Decay Coupling
- 33 Summary of the Course
- References
- Table of the Fundamental Particles