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1 online resource (xiii, 449 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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World Scientific series in 20th century physics ; v. 40 |
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World Scientific series in 20th century physics ; v. 40.
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| Contents |
1. The garden of live flowers, in Physics and Society : Essays in Honor of Victor Frederick Weisskopf -- 2. Strangeness, J. de Physique -- 3. Quantum electrodynamics at small distances (with F.E. Low) -- 4. Behavior of neutral particles under charge conjugation (with A. Pais) -- 5. Sixth annual Rochester conference, 1956 : field theory on the mass shell the nature of the weak interaction -- 6. Theory of the fermi interaction (with R.P. Feynman) -- 7. The eightfold way : a theory of strong interaction symmetry, in The Eightfold Way -- 8. Symmetries of baryons and mesons -- 9. Prediction of the [symbol] particle, from 1962 Int. Conf. on High Energy Physics -- 10. Elementary particles of conventional field theory as Regge Poles (with M.L. Goldberger) -- 11. A schematic model of baryons and mesons -- 12. Current topics in particle physics, in Proceedings of the XIII Int. Conf. on High-Energy Physics -- 13. Behavior of current divergences under SU[symbol] x SU[symbol] (with R.J. Oakes and B. Renner -- 14. Light cone current algebra (with H. Fritzsch), in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Duality and Symmetry in Hadron Physics -- 15. Light-cone current algebra, [symbol] decay, and e+e- annihilation (with W.A. Bardeen and H. Fritzsch), in Scale and Conformal Symmetry in Hadron Physics -- 16. Quarks, Acta Physica Austriaca, Suppl. IX -- 17. Current algebra : quarks and what else? (with H. Fritzsch), in Proc. of the XVI Int. Conf. on High Energy Physics -- 18. Advantages of the color octet gluon picture (with H. Fritzsch and H. Leutwyler) -- 19. Complex spinors and unified theories (with P. Ramond and R. Slansky), in Supergravity -- 20. Particle theory : from s-matrix to quarks, in Symmetries in Physics (1600-1980) -- 21. Remarks given at the celebration of Victor Weisskopf's 80th birthday -- 22. Quantum mechanics in the light of quantum cosmology (with J.B. Hartle), in Proc. 3rd Int. Symp. Foundations of Quantum Mechanics -- 23. Dick Feynman -- the guy in the office down the hall, Phys. Today -- 24. Time symmetry and asymmetry in quantum mechanics and quantum cosmology (with J.B. Hartle), in Physical Origins of Time Asymmetry -- 25. Progress in elementary particle theory, 1950-1964, in Pions to Quarks -- 26. Nature conformable to herself, Complexity -- 27. Quarks, color, and QCD, in The Rise of the Standard Model -- 28. Effective complexity (with S. Lloyd), in Nonextensive Entropy -- Interdisciplinary Applications -- 29. Asymptotically scale-invariant occupancy of phase space makes the entropy S[symbol] extensive (with C. Tsallis and Y. Sato) -- 30. Quasiclassical coarse graining and thermodynamic entropy (with J.B. Hartle) -- 31. Progress in elementary particle theory |
| Summary |
Murray Gell-Mann is one of the leading physicists of the world. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969 for his work on the classification and symmetries of elementary particles, including the approximate SU(3) symmetry of hadrons. His list of publications is impressive; a number of his papers have become landmarks in physics. In 1953, Gell-Mann introduced the strangeness quantum number, conserved by the strong and electromagnetic interactions but not by the weak interaction. In 1954 he and F E Low proposed what was later called the renormalization group. In 1958 he and R P Feynman wrote an important article on the V-A theory of the weak interaction. In 1961 and 1962 he described his ideas about the SU(3) symmetry of hadrons and its violation, leading to the prediction of the [symbol]- particle. In 1964 he proposed the quark picture of hadrons. In 1971 he and H Fritzsch proposed the exactly conserved "color" quantum number and in 1972 they discussed what they later called quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the gauge theory of color. These major publications and many others are collected in this volume, providing physicists with easy access to much of Gell-Mann's work. Some of the articles are concerned with his recollections of the history of elementary particle physics in the third quarter of the twentieth century |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
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Particles (Nuclear physics)
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Mathematical physics.
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Elementary Particles
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particle physics.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Energy.
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Mathematical physics
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Particles (Nuclear physics)
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Fritzsch, Harald, 1943-
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| LC no. |
2009005667 |
| ISBN |
9789812836854 |
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9812836853 |
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1282760661 |
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9781282760660 |
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9786612760662 |
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6612760664 |
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