Particles, Sources, and Fields

✍ Scribed by Julian Schwinger

• Publisher: Westview Press
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 444
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Presents techniques that emphasize the unity of high-energy particle physics with electrodynamics, gravitational theory, & many-particle cooperative phenomena, (First of 3 volumes). Paper.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 14
1-1 Unitary Transformations......Page 20
1-2 Galilean Relativity......Page 26
1-3 Einsteinian Relativity......Page 34
1-4 Critique of Particle Theories......Page 43
2. Sources......Page 56
2-1 Spin 0 Particles. Weak Source......Page 57
2-2 Spin 0 Particles. Strong Source......Page 69
2-3 Spin 1 Particles. The Photon......Page 86
2-4 Spin 2 Particles. The Graviton......Page 97
2-5 Particles with Arbitrary Integer Spin......Page 104
2-6 Spin 1/2 Particles. Fermi-Dirac Statistics......Page 118
2-7 More About Spin 1/2 Particles. Neutrinos......Page 133
2-8 Particles of Integer + 1/2 Spin......Page 146
2-9 Unification of All Spins and Statistics......Page 153
3-1 The Field Concept. Spin 0 Particles......Page 164
3-2 The Field Concept. Spin 1/2 Particles......Page 176
3-3 Some Other Spin Values......Page 183
3-4 Multispinor Fields......Page 196
3-5 Action......Page 205
3-6 Invariance Transformations and Fluxes. Charge......Page 218
3-7 Invariance Transformations and Fluxes. Mechanical Properties......Page 228
3-8 The Electromagnetic Field. Magnetic Charge......Page 246
3-9 Charge Quantization. Mass Normalization......Page 258
3-10 Primitive EIectromagnetic Interactions and Source Models......Page 273
3-11 Extended Sources. Soft Photons......Page 284
3-12 Interaction Skeleton. Scattering Cross Sections......Page 296
3-13 Spin 1/2 Processes......Page 319
3-14 Sources as Scatterers......Page 339
3-15 H-Particles......Page 363
3-16 Instability and Multiparticle Exchange......Page 379
3-17 The Gravitational Field......Page 397
Appendix: How to Read Volume I......Page 426
A......Page 428
C......Page 429
D......Page 431
E......Page 432
F......Page 433
G......Page 434
J......Page 435
M......Page 436
P......Page 437
S......Page 439
T......Page 443
W......Page 444