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Tables of Contents for The Theory of Fundamental Processes
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Editor's Foreword
v
2
Preface
vii
1 Review of the Principles of Quantum Mechanics
1
6
2 Spin and Statistics
7
4
3 Rotations and Angular Momentum
11
8
4 Rules of Composition of Angular Momentum
19
4
5 Relativity
23
6
6 Electromagnetic and Fermi Couplings
29
4
7 Fermi Couplings and the Failure of Parity
33
5
8 Pion-Nucleon Coupling
38
5
9 Strange Particles
43
5
10 Some Consequences of Strangeness
48
3
11 Strong Coupling Schemes
51
4
12 Decay of Strange Particles
55
5
13 The Question of a Universal Coupling Coefficient
60
4
14 Rules for Strangeness Changing Decays: Experiments
64
3
15 Fundamental laws of Electromagnetics and Beta-Decay Coupling
67
6
16 Density of Final States
73
5
17 The Propagator for Scalar Particles
78
5
18 The Propagator in Configuration Space
83
5
19 Particles of Spin 1
88
7
20 Virtual and Real Photons
95
6
21 Problems
101
5
22 Spin-1/2 Particles
106
6
23 Extension of Finite Mass
112
6
24 Properties of the Four-Component Spinor
118
7
25 The Compton Effect
125
6
26 Direct Pair Production by Muons
131
3
27 Higher-Order Processes
134
5
28 Self-Energy of the Electron
139
6
29 Quantum Electrodynamics
145
7
30 Meson Theory
152
4
31 Theory of Beta Decay
156
8
32 Properties of the Beta-Decay Coupling
164
4
33 Summary of the Course
168
2
References
170
1
Table of the Fundamental Particles
171