Elliot Leader (Imperial College London)

Spin in Particle Physics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a thorough introduction to spin and its role in elementary particle physics, surveying the main theoretical and experimental developments for graduate students and researchers in high energy physics. First published in 2001, this title has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 912g
• ISBN-13: 9781009402019
• ISBN-10: 1009402013
• Artikelnr.: 68319386

Autorenporträt

Elliot Leader is Emeritus Professor in The University of London and Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and in 1967 became Professor of Theoretical Physics at Westfield College, London. In 1984 he took up the Chair of Theoretical Physics at Birkbeck College, London, where he worked for 16 years. Professor Leader has done research in universities and laboratories throughout the world, including CERN, Brookhaven, Fermilab, California Institute of Technology and the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley. He has published numerous papers and review articles and is the author of two previous books, both written with Enrico Predazzi.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Spin and helicity
2. The effect of Lorentz and discrete transformations on helicity states, fields and wave-functions
3. The spin density matrix
4. Transition amplitudes
5. The observables of a reaction
6. The production of polarized hadrons
7. The production of polarized e±
8. Analysis of polarized states: polarimetry
9. Electroweak interactions
10. Quantum chromodynamics: spin in the world of massless partons
11. The spin of the nucleon: polarized deep inelastic scattering
12. Two-spin and parity-violating single spin asymmetries at large scale
13. One particle inclusive transverse single-spin asymmetries
14. Elastic scattering at high energies
Appendices.