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Informationen zum Autor Elliot Leader is Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College! London. He received his PhD 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. Klappentext Motivated by recent dramatic developments in the field, this volume provides a thorough introduction to spin and its role in elementary particle physics. Starting with a simple pedagogical overview of spin and its relativistic generalization, the author successfully avoids the obscurity and impenetrability of traditional treatments of the subject. He surveys the main theoretical and experimental developments of recent years, 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 in all areas of quantum physics, particularly in elementary particle and high energy physics. It is suitable as a supplementary text for graduate courses in theoretical and experimental particle physics. Zusammenfassung A thorough introduction to spin in elementary particle physics. The book starts with a simple pedagogical approach to the subject and then surveys the main experimental and theoretical developments. Suitable for graduate students and researchers working in elementary particle physics and high energy physics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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. ...
