MESON THEORY OF NUCLEAR FORCES WOLFGANG PAULI THE INSTITUTE FOR
ADVANCED STUDY, PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, AND FEDERAL POLYTECHNICUM
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND SECOND EDITION 1948 INTERSCIENCE PUBLISHERS,
INC. NEW YORK INTERSCIENCE PUBLISHERS, LTD. LONDON Copyright, 1946,
1948, by INTERSCIENCE PUBLISHERS, INC. 215 Fourth Avenue, New York
3, N. Y. Printed in the United States of America by Mack Printing
Company, Easton, Pa. First Edition, 1946 Second Edition, 1948 All
rights reserved This book or any part thereof must not be
reproduced in any form without per mission of the publisher in
writing. This applies specifically to photostatic and microfilm
reproductions. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION Since the publication
of the last edition some of the older experiments particularly
those on angular dis tribution in proton-neutron scattering have
been ren dered obsolete by more recent work. In addition, some
consequences of the strong coupling theory have been clarified. In
this respect, improvements have been introduced into the text. On
the other hand, the provisional state of the meson theory has
become still more obvious as a result of the experimental discovery
of at least two kinds of mesons by C. F. Powell and G. P. S.
Occhialini, and by the absence of negative meson capture by the
lighter nuclei by M. Conversi, E. Pancini, and O. Piccioni. In view
of the failure of all present theories in explaining these new
facts, the author saw no possibility of making an essential
improvement in the substance of this book. But the recent success
of C. M. G. Lattes and E. Gardner in producing mesons artificially
will presum ably bring forth a great change of the whole situation
in the near future. Zurich, Switzerland WOLFGANG PAULI June, 1948
Preface to the First Edition The purpose of this volume is to make
accessible to a larger number of readers the lectures which I gave
in the autumn of 1944 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Without pretending to contain any thing essentially new, they may
serve to give to students and research workers a first orientation
in the more recent literature on the theory of the interaction of
mesons with protons and neutrons nucleons and the interactions
between nucleons derived from it. Despite the imperfections of my
lectures, the original notes written by Dr. J. F. Carlson and Dr.
A. J. F. Siegert have been amended only slightly, to preserve the
in formal character of the lectures and to emphasize the very
provisional state of the problems in question, to which new
experiments may in the future make im portant contributions.
Special thanks are extended to Dr. S. T. Ma for reading and
checking the proofs. Princeton, New Jersey WOLFGANG PAULI February,
1946 CONTENTS PREFACE v CHAPTER I 1 Various Types of Meson Fields 3
Scalar Charged Meson Field 4 Pseudoscalar Symmetric Theory 6
Vector-Field Theory 8 CHAPTER II 11 Theory of Extended Source 12
CHAPTER III 25 Scattering of Mesons 25 Magnetic Moment in the
Strong Coupling Case 34 Magnetic Moment in the Weak Coupling Case .
38 CHAPTER IV 41 Quantum Theory of Scattering 41 Theory of
Radiation Damping 41 Heisenbergs Observable Quantities 1 ... 46
Proof that 5 is Unitary 48 CHAPTER V 52 Theory of Neutron-Proton
Scattering 52 CHAPTER VI 57 Strong Coupling Theory of the
Two-Nucleon Sys tem 57 Concluding Remarks 65 APPENDIX 67 CHAPTER I
The meson theory of nuclear forces has been de veloped in analogyto
the theory of the Coulomb force, which arises from the interaction
of charged particles with the electromagnetic field. The short
range of the nuclear forces is obtained by letting the particles
corre sponding to the photons have a rest mass, 1 the range of
forces arising from a field of particles of rest mass x being H
JLC. From experiments on scattering of neutrons by protons the
range of nuclear forces is known to be 2 X 10 13 cm, which leads to
a rest mass -t 200 electron masses...
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