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The Nature of the Elementary Particle

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  • © 1978

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Authors:
  1. Malcolm H. MacGregor
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 81)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Prologue: The wave-particle duality of the elementary particle

    Pages 1-3

  3. Introduction and summary

    Pages 4-9

  4. The elementary particle: Victim of an historical accident

    • T. H. Huxley
    Pages 10-14

  5. What is the nature of the elementary particle?

    • Bertrand Russell
    Pages 15-21

  6. Is the “elementary particle” elementary or composite?

    Pages 22-25

  7. What is the binding energy of the quark?

    Pages 26-33

  8. Evidence for the fundamental spinless mass quantum M = 70 MEV

    Pages 34-55

  9. The relativistic mass increase for spinning systems

    Pages 56-72

  10. The muon: Lonely orphan or missing link

    Pages 73-92

  11. Evidence for the spin 1/2 Spinor S = 330 MEV

    Pages 93-109

  12. The fundamental baryon states N, A, Σ, Ξ, and Ω

    Pages 110-119

  13. Introduction and summary

    Pages 120-124

  14. Elementary particle lifetimes: An untapped goldmine of information

    Pages 125-149

  15. Do orbital angular momentum barriers apply to elementary particles?

    Pages 150-157

  16. Spin and orbital angular momentum components of baryons

    Pages 158-174

  17. Spin and orbital angular momenta in mesons: The ω and ρ mesons

    Pages 175-198

  18. Transitions between spinless and spinning masses; spin quantization

    Pages 199-213

  19. Introduction

    Pages 214-216

  20. Mapping the baryon resonances

    Pages 217-252
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Nature of the Elementary Particle

  • Authors: Malcolm H. MacGregor

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-08857-1

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1978

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-35810-7Published: 05 August 2005

  • Series ISSN: 0075-8450

  • Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Topics: Physics, general

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