Murray Gell-Mann : Selected Papers

by Fritzsch, Harald

• ISBN13: 9789814261623
• ISBN10: 9814261629
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-28
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

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 - 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. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Murray Gell-Mann	p. vii
Commentary Notes	p. 1
The Garden of Live Flowers, in Physics and Society: Essays in Honor of Victor Frederick Weisskopf (Springer-Verlag, 1998) pp. 109-121	p. 25
Strangeness, J. de Physique C8 (1982) 395-408	p. 38
Quantum Electrodynamics at Small Distances (with F. E. Low) Phys. Rev. 95 (1954) 1300-1312	p. 52
Behavior of Neutral Particles under Charge Conjugation (with A. Pais), Phys. Rev. 97 (1955) 1387-1389	p. 65
Sixth Annual Rochester Conference, 1956: Field Theory on the Mass Shell	p. 68
The Nature of the Weak Interaction	p. 72
Theory of the Fermi Interaction (with R. P. Feynman), Phys. Rev. 109 (1958) 193-198	p. 75
The Eightfold Way: A Theory of Strong Interaction Symmetry, in The Eightfold Way, eds. M Gell-Mann and Y. Ne'eman (W. A. Benjamin, 1964), pp. 11-57	p. 81
Symmetries of Baryons and Mesons, Phys. Rev. 125 (1962) 1067-1084	p. 128
Prediction of the ¿- Particle, from 1962 Int. Conf. on High Energy Physics, p. 805	p. 146
Elementary Particles of Conventional Field Theory as Regge Poles (with M. L. Goldberger), Phys. Rev. Lett. 9 (1962) 275-277 (with Errata)	p. 147
A Schematic Model of Baryons and Mesons, Phys. Lett. 8 (1964) 214-215	p. 151
Current Topics in Particle Physics, in Proceedings of the XIII Int. Conf. on High-Energy Physics (Univ. California Press, 1967) pp. 3-9	p. 153
Behavior of Current Divergences under SU3 x SU3 (with R. J. Oakes and B. Renner), Phys. Rev. 175 (1968) 2195-2199	p. 160
Light Cone Current Algebra (with H. Fritzsch), in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Duality and Symmetry in Hadron Physics (Weizmann Science Press of Israel, 1971) pp. 317-348 (Sec. 9 and Appendices not included)	p. 165
Light-Cone Current Algebra, ¿ o Decay, and e+ e- Annihilation (with W. A. Bardeen and H. Fritzsch), in Scale and Conformal Symmetry in Hadron Physics, ed. R. Gatto (John Wiley & Sons, 1973), pp. 139-151	p. 199
Quarks, Acta Physica Austriaca, Suppl. IX (1972) 733-761	p. 212
Current Algebra: Quarks and What Else? (with H. Fritzsch), in Proc. of the XVI Int. Conf. on High Energy Physics, eds.J. D. Jackson and A. Roberts	p. 241
Advantages of the Color Octet Gluon Picture (with H. Fritzsch and H. Leutwyler), Phys. Lett. 47B (1973) 365-368	p. 262
Complex Spinors and Unified Theories (with P. Ramond and R. Slansky), in Supergravity, eds. P. van Nieuwenhuizen and D. Z. Freedman (North-Holland, 1979), pp. 315-321	p. 266
Particle Theory: From S-Matrix to Quarks, in Symmetries in Physics (1600-1980), eds. M. G. Doncel, A. Hermann, L. Michel and A. Pais (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona), pp. 474-497	p. 273
Remarks Given at the Celebration of Victor Weisskopf's 80th Birthday	p. 297
Quantum Mechanics in the Light of Quantum Cosmology (with J. B. Hartle), in Proc. 3rd Int. Symp. Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, pp. 321-343	p. 303
Dick Feynman - The Guy in the Office Down the Hall, Phys. Today (February 1989) 50-54	p. 326
Time Symmetry and Asymmetry in Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Cosmology (with J. B. Hartle), in Physical Origins of Time Asymmetry, eds. J. J. Halliwell, J. Perez-Mercader and W. H. Zurek (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994), pp. 311-337 (without the Appendix)	p. 331
Progress in Elementary Particle Theory, 1950-1964, in Pions to Quarks, pp. 694-711	p. 360
Nature Conformable to Herself, Complexity (1996) 9-12	p. 378
Quarks, Color, and QCD, in The Rise of the Standard Model, eds. L. Hoddeson, L. Brown, M. Riordan and M. Dresden (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997), pp. 625-633	p. 382
Effective Complexity (with S. Lloyd), in Nonextensive Entropy - Interdisciplinary Applications, eds. M. Gell-Mann and C. Tsallis (Oxford Univ. Press, 2004) 387-398	p. 391
Asymptotically Scale-Invariant Occupancy of Phase Space Makes the Entropy Sq Extensive (with C. Tsallis and Y. Sato), PNAS 102 (2005) 15377-15382	p. 403
Quasiclassical Coarse Graining and Thermodynamic Entropy (with J. B. Hartle), Phys. Rev. A 76 (2007) 022104-1-022104-16	p. 409
Progress in Elementary Particle Theory, 1946-1973	p. 425
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