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 O- 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.
General
Imprint: |
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
|
Country of origin: |
Singapore |
Series: |
World Scientific Series In 20th Century Physics, 40 |
Release date: |
February 2010 |
First published: |
April 2010 |
Editors: |
Harald Fritzsch
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Dimensions: |
267 x 194 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
464 |
ISBN-13: |
978-981-283-684-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Science & Mathematics >
Physics >
Particle & high-energy physics
|
LSN: |
981-283-684-5 |
Barcode: |
9789812836847 |
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