Physics of Elementary Particles

✍ Scribed by John David Jackson

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 145
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; 2298
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is an introductory account of the physics of elementary particles and their interactions, with a minimum of formal apparatus and an ease of reading which, at present, is found in few other books in physics. It is designed for graduate students and for physicists not specializing in the field. The various phenomena are interpreted and correlated largely by means of elementary theoretical arguments needing little background beyond a first course in quantum mechanics. Numerous references to the original literature will allow the reader to probe more deeply into the topics discussed. Selected topics include scattering, photoproduction, K-mesons and hyperons, theoretical models, weak decay processes, and analysis of recent experiments on nonconservation of parity.

Originally published in 1958.

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✦ Table of Contents

PREFACE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES
PART I. THE INTERACTION OF PIONS AND NUCLEONS
CHAPTER 1. Introductory Discussion of Pions and Nucleons
1.1. Properties of Pions
1.2. Form of the Pion-Nucleon Interaction
1.3. Equations of Motion for the Pion Field and Nucleon Variables
CHAPTER 2. Scattering of Pions by Nucleons
2.1. Isotopic Spin Analysis
2.2. Essential Featuresofthe Scattering up to 400 Mev
2.3. Angular Distributions and Phase Shifts
CHAPTER 3. Theoretical Treatment of the Scattering
3.1. Effective Range Approximation
3.2. Dispersion Relations
3.3. Dispersion Relations for Pion-Nucleon Scattering
CHAPTER 4. Photoproduction of Pions from Nucleons
4.1. Equations of Motion in the Presence of the Electromagnetic Field
4.2. Nucleon Magnetic Moment Contributions and Neutral Pion Photoproduction
4.3. Photoproduction of Charged Pions
4.4. Anomalous Magnetic Moments of the Nucleons and other Electromagnetic Phenomena
PART II. K-MESONS AND HYPERONS
CHAPTER 5. Empirical Facts on it-Mesons and Hyperons
5.1. Hyperons
5.2. X-Mesons
5.3. The Tau-Theta Puzzle
5.4. Production Versus Decay, Associated Production
CHAPTER 6. Classification Scheme and Details of the Interactions
6.1. Displaced Charge Multiplets
6.2. Production and Capture Processes, Hyperon Spins
6.3. X-Meson Scattering and Absorption by Nucleons and Nuclei
6.4. Hypernuclei
6.5. Spin of the Lambda from Hypernuclear Decay
6.6. Neutral X-Mesons
6.7. Decay Branching Ratios and the D? = JrJ Rule
CHAPTER 7. Theoretical Models for Strong Interactions
7.1. Goldhaber-Christy Model
7.2. Form of the X-Meson-Baryon Interaction
7.3. Form of the Pion-Baryon Interaction and Hypemuclear Binding
7.4. The Symmetric Pion Coupling Model
7.5. Photoproduction of X-Mesons from Hydrogen and the Parity of the X-Meson
PART III. DECAY PROCESSES
CHAPTER 8. Symmetry Principles and Their Observational Tests
8.1. Parity Conservation in Strong Interactions
8.2. General Arguments on Invariance
8.3. Time Reversal Invariance
8.4. PCT Theorem and Charge Conjugation Invariance
CHAPTER 9. Nuclear Beta Decay
9.1. Beta Decay with Parity Conservation
9.2. Beta Decay Interaction without Space Inversion and Time Reversal Invariance
9.3. Directional Asymmetry in Beta Emission from Oriented Co60
9.4. Two-component Neutrino or Its Equivalent
9.5. Longitudinal Polarization of Beta Particles
9.6. Further Directional Asymmetry Experiments
9.7. Polarization Effects following Beta Decay
9.8. Time Reversal Experiments
9.9. Reinterpretation of the "Old" Experiments
9.10. A Possible Beta Interaction
CHAPTER 10. Other Decay Processes
10.1. Mu Meson Decay
10.2. Mu Meson Capture
10.3. Universal Fermi Interaction
10.4. Conservation of Leptons
10.5. Kon Decay
10.6. Parity Nonconservation in Hyperon Decay
10.7. K-Meson and Hyperon Decay Mechanism and a Universal Fermi Interaction for All Decays
Index