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Author Grotz, K

Title The Weak Interaction in Nuclear, Particle, and Astrophysics
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 1990

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Description 1 online resource (476 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the English Edition -- Preface to the original German Edition -- N: Notation -- N.1 Natural Units -- N .2 Relativistic Quantities -- N .3 Operators and Matrices -- N.4 Vectors -- N .5 Symbols for Mathematical Operations -- N .6 Dirac Matrices -- N. 7 Isospin -- N.8 Notation for Particles, Particle States and Particle Operators (Field Operators) -- 1: Elementary Particles and Interactions-Overview -- 1.1 The Elementary Building Blocks of Matter -- 1.1.1 Leptons and Quarks -- 1.1.2 Antiparticles
1.2 Elementary Interactions and Field Quanta -- 1.2.1 Phenomenology of the Interactions -- 1.2.2 Modern Quantum Field Theory of the Elementary Interactions -- 1.3 Quantum Numbers and Conservation Laws in Nuclear and Particle Physics -- 1.3.1 Electric Charge Q -- 1.3.2 Baryon Number B -- 1.3.3 Lepton Number L -- 1.3.4 Flavour Quantum Numbers -- 1.3.5 Isospin T -- 1.3.6 Weak Isospin Tw -- 1.3.7 Parity -- 1.3.8 Charge Conjugation C (Particle-Antiparticle Conjugation) -- 1.3.9 CP Conjugation -- 1.3.10 The CPT Theorem, Time Reversal
2: Classical Theory of the Weak Interaction and Foundations of Nuclear Beta Decay -- 2.1 Phenomenology of Nuclear Beta Decay -- 2.1.1 Free Neutron Decay -- 2.1.2 Allowed Nuclear Beta Decay -- 2.1.3 Energy Spectra and Decay Rates for Allowed Transitions -- 2.1.4 Forbidden Transitions -- 2.2 Four-Fermion Point Interaction -- 2.2.1 Relativistic Interaction Currents -- 2.2.2 Fermi's Formulation -- 2.2.3 Possible Lorentz-Invariant Interaction Structures -- 2.2.4 Parity Violation and The V-A Structure of the Weak Interaction -- 2.2.5 The Universal Current-Current Interaction, CVC and PCAC
Notes Description based upon print version of record
4.2.1 SU(2) Transformations of the Doublet (v e)
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ISBN 9781000157338
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