Elementary Particles

By: Enrico Fermi, Thomas Appelquist (Foreword by)

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First published in 1951, Enrico Fermi&;s Elementary Particles remains a valuable guide for physicists and scholars. Fermi&;s descriptions of the then-known particle universe and its nascent conceptual framework allow readers to glimpse the foundations of the field from the perspective of one of its most distinguished contributors.

Over sixty years of research have provided answers to some of the questions Fermi poses in this book, but the biggest mysteries, regarding the origin and unification of forces, remain. As the high-energy physics community analyzes the results from ongoing experiments, such as those at the Large Hadron Collider, this historic work will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students. A new foreword by Yale University physicist Thomas Appelquist provides an engaging update and gives the work historical context.

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Foreword to the 2012 Edition by Thomas Appelquist	p. vii
Foreword	p. xix
Notations	p. xxi
Quanta of a Field as Particles	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
The Electromagnetic Field	p. 4
Scalar Field with Mass	p. 8
Field of Charged Scalar Particles	p. 10
Particles Obeying the Pauli Principle	p. 12
Interaction of the Fields	p. 16
General Types of Interaction	p. 16
Conservation of Momentum	p. 20
Yukawa Interactions	p. 21
Other Interactions	p. 26
Calculation of Transition Rates	p. 30
Development Parameters	p. 32
The Interaction Constants	p. 36
Electromagnetic and Yukawa Interaction Constants	p. 36
Decay of the Pion as Direct Process	p. 38
The Beta Interaction	p. 39
Spontaneous Decay of the Muon	p. 44
Forced Decay of the Muon	p. 47
Pions, Nucleons, and Anti-nucleons	p. 50
Yukawa Theory of Nuclear Forces	p. 50
Production of Pions in Nucleon Collisions	p. 55
Effect of the Nucleon Bond	p. 58
Production of Pions by Gamma Rays	p. 64
Capture of Negative Pions by Protons	p. 66
Scattering of Pions by Nucleons	p. 70
The Anti-nucleon. Annihilation	p. 73
Decay of the Neutral Pion into Two Photons	p. 76
Statistical Theory of Pion Production	p. 79
Collisions of Extremely High Energy Particles	p. 84
Appendices:
Quantization of the Radiation Field	p. 91
Second Quantization with Pauli Principle	p. 98
Measurability of the Fields	p. 104
Relativistic Invariance	p. 106
Relationships between Interaction Constants	p. 108
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