Murray Gell-mann - Selected Papers

by Harald Fritzsch

Overview

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 Ω- 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789812836847
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	02/09/2010
Series:	World Scientific Series In 20th Century Physics , #40
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	7.60(w) x 10.30(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

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Commentary Notes 1

1 The Garden of Live Flowers, in Physics and Society: Essays in Honor of Victor Frederick Weisskopf (Springer-Verlag, 1998) pp. 109-121 25

2 Strangeness, J. de Physique C8 (1982) 395-408 38

3 Quantum Electrodynamics at Small Distances (with F. E. Low) Phys. Rev. 95 (1954) 1300-1312 52

4 Behavior of Neutral Particles under Charge Conjugation (with A. Pais), Phys. Rev. 97 (1955) 1387-1389 65

5 Sixth Annual Rochester Conference, 1956: Field Theory on the Mass Shell 68

The Nature of the Weak Interaction 72

6 Theory of the Fermi Interaction (with R. P. Feynman), Phys. Rev. 109 (1958) 193-198 75

7 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 81

8 Symmetries of Baryons and Mesons, Phys. Rev. 125 (1962) 1067-1084 128

9 Prediction of the Ω^- Particle, from 1962 Int. Conf. on High Energy Physics, p. 805 146

10 Elementary Particles of Conventional Field Theory as Regge Poles (with M. L. Goldberger), Phys. Rev. Lett. 9 (1962) 275-277 (with Errata) 147

11 A Schematic Model of Baryons and Mesons, Phys. Lett. 8 (1964) 214-215 151

12 Current Topics in Particle Physics, in Proceedings of the XIII Int. Conf. on High-Energy Physics (Univ. California Press, 1967) pp. 3-9 153

13 Behavior of Current Divergences under SU₃ x SU₃ (with R. J. Oakes and B. Renner), Phys. Rev. 175 (1968) 2195-2199 160

14 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) 165

15 Light-Cone Current Algebra, π ^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. 139-151 199

16 Quarks, Acta Physica Austriaca, Suppl. IX (1972) 733-761 212

17 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 241

18 Advantages of the Color Octet Gluon Picture (with H. Fritzsch and H. Leutwyler), Phys. Lett. 47B (1973) 365-368 262

19 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. 315-321 266

20 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. 474-497 273

21 Remarks Given at the Celebration of Victor Weisskopf's 80th Birthday 297

22 Quantum Mechanics in the Light of Quantum Cosmology (with J. B. Hartle), in Proc. 3rd Int. Symp. Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, pp. 321-343 303

23 Dick Feynman - The Guy in the Office Down the Hall, Phys. Today (February 1989) 50-54 326

24 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) 331

25 Progress in Elementary Particle Theory, 1950-1964, in Pions to Quarks, pp. 694-711 360

26 Nature Conformable to Herself, Complexity (1996) 9-12 378

27 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. 625-633 382

28 Effective Complexity (with S. Lloyd), in Nonextensive Entropy - Interdisciplinary Applications, eds. M. Gell-Mann and C. Tsallis (Oxford Univ. Press, 2004) 387-398 391

29 Asymptotically Scale-Invariant Occupancy of Phase Space Makes the Entropy S_q Extensive (with C. Tsallis and Y. Sato), PNAS 102 (2005) 15377-15382 403

30 Quasiclassical Coarse Graining and Thermodynamic Entropy (with J. B. Hartle), Phys. Rev. A 76 (2007) 022104-1-022104-16 409

31 Progress in Elementary Particle Theory, 1946-1973 425