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Spin in Particle Physics

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Part of Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology

Author: Elliot Leader, Imperial College London

Date Published: July 2023
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9781009401999

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Motivated by dramatic developments in the field, this book provides a thorough introduction to spin and its role in elementary particle physics. Starting with a simple pedagogical introduction to spin and its relativistic generalisation, the author avoids the obscurity and impenetrability of traditional treatments of the subject. The book surveys the main theoretical and experimental developments, as well as discussing exciting plans for the future. Emphasis is placed on the importance of spin-dependent measurements in testing QCD and the Standard Model. This book will be of value to graduate students and researchers working in all areas of quantum physics and particularly in elementary particle and high energy physics. It is suitable as a supplementary text for graduate courses in theoretical and experimental particle physics. This title, first published in 2001, has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.
- Spin is an essential and fascinating quantum mechanical attribute that can help probe underlying theory
- A thorough, unified and pedagogical treatment of spin at a level suitable for both theorists and experimentalists
- Reissued as an Open Access title on Cambridge Core
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- Date Published: July 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009401999
- length: 528 pages
- dimensions: 251 x 175 x 35 mm
- weight: 1.06kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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Elliot Leader, Imperial College London
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.