Screen LibraryQuantum mechanics, high energy physics and accelerators : selected papers of John S. Bell (with commentary) /
The scientific career of John Stewart Bell was distinguished by its breadth and its quality. He made several very important contributions to scientific fields as diverse as accelerator physics, high energy physics and the foundations of quantum mechanics. This book contains a large part of J.S. Bell...
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World Scientific Pub. Co.,
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| Publisher Address: | Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. : |
| Publication Dates: | 1995. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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World Scientific series in 20th century physics ;
v. 9 |
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http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/2611#t=toc |
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The scientific career of John Stewart Bell was distinguished by its breadth and its quality. He made several very important contributions to scientific fields as diverse as accelerator physics, high energy physics and the foundations of quantum mechanics. This book contains a large part of J.S. Bell's publications, including those that are recognized as his most important achievements, as well as others that are for no good reason less well known. The selection was made by Mary Bell, Martinus Veltman and Kurt Gottfried, all of whom were involved with John Bell both personally and professionally throughout a large part of his life. An introductory chapter has been written to help place the selected papers in a historical context and to review their significance. This book comprises an impressive collection of outstanding scientific work of one of the greatest scientists of the recent past, and it will remain important and influential for a long time to come. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xvii,933pages) : illustrations, ports. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789812795854 |
| Index Number: | QC793 |
| CLC: | Q572-53 |
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Section 1. Accelerator physics. 1. Linear accelerator phase oscillations -- 2. Electron cooling in storage rings / with M. Bell -- 3. Capture of cooling electrons by cool protons / with M. Bell -- 4. Radiation damping and Lagrange invariants with M. Bell -- 5. Electrons as accelerated thermometers / with J.M. Leinaas -- 6. The Unruh effect in extended thermometers / with Richard J. Hughes and J.M. Leinaas -- 7. The Unruh effect and quantum fluctuations of electrons in storage rings / with J.M. Leinaas -- 8. Quantum beamstrahlung / with M. Bell -- 9. End effects in quantum beamstrahlung / with M. Bell -- 10. Quantum bremsstrahlung in almost uniform fields / with M. Bell -- Section 2. High energy physics. 11. Time reversal in field theory -- 12. Magnetic moments of nuclei and the nuclear many-body problem / with R.J. Eden and T.H.R. Skyrme -- 13. Time reversal in beta-decay -- 14. A variational method in field theory -- 15. The anomalous moments of nucleons / with T.H.R. Skyrme -- 16. Mesonic effects in beta-decay / with R.J. Blin-Stoyle -- 17. The polarization-asymmetry equality / with F. Mandl -- 18. Bremsstrahlung from Multiple Scattering -- 19. A formal optical model / with E.J. Squires -- 20. Electromagnetic properties of unstable particles -- 21. Rest energy, rest mass, and noncovariant electrodynamics -- 22. Pion and strange particle production by 1 GeV neutrinos / with S.M. Berman -- 23. On a conjecture of C.N. Yang -- 24. Fluctuation compressibility theorem and its application to the pairing model -- 25. The Lee theory of intermediate bosons and the K[symbol] decays / with Ph. Meyer and J. Prentki -- 26. CERN neutrino experiment: conclusions / with J. L vseth and M. Veltman -- 27. Intermediate boson production by neutrinos / with M. Veltman -- 28. Polarisation of vector bosons produced by neutrinos / with M. Veltman -- 29. On muon capture in heavy nuclei / with J. L vseth -- 30. Nuclear optical model for virtual pions -- 31. 2 decay of the K[symbol] meson / with J.K. Perring -- 32. Double poles and nonexponential decays / with C.J. Goebel -- 33. U[symbol], its 143 momenta, its little group U[symbol] x U[symbol] and its irregular couplings / with H. Ruegg -- 34. Weak interactions of kaons / with J. Steinberger -- 35. Equal-time commutator in a solvable model -- 36. On current algebra and CVC in pion beta-decay / with S.M. Berman -- 37. Current algebra and gauge variance -- 38. Current algebra and n --> 3 / with D.G. Sutherland -- 39. On Singh's lemma for low-energy compton scattering -- 40. Current and density algebra and gauge invariance -- 41. Weak interactions in the nuclear shadow -- 42. A PCAC puzzle : [symbol] in the [symbol]-model / with R. Jackiw -- 43. On the Low-Burnett-Kroll theorem for soft-photon emission / with R. Van Royen -- 44. Froissart bounds with any spin -- 45. Hadronic vacuum polarization and g[symbol] - 2 / with E. de Rafael -- 46. Near-Forward Neutrino Reactions on Nuclear Targets / with C.H. Llewellyn Smith. 47. Final-state interactions and charge asymmetry in K[symbol] decays / with R.K.P. Zia -- 48. Quasielastic neutrino-nucleus interactions / with C.H. Llewellyn Smith -- 49. Pseudoscalar meson dominance in neutrino-nucleus reactions -- 50. High energy behaviour of tree diagrams in gauge theories -- 51. Lorentz contraction and diffractive excitation -- 52. The Melosh transformation and the Pryce-Tani-Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation -- 53. A theoretical argument for something like the second Melosh transformation / with A.J.G. Hey -- 54. Isospin bounds for energy partition in e and [symbol]N annihilation / with G. Karl and C.H. Llewellyn Smith -- 55. On neutrino and antineutrino scattering by electrons, and by partons / with G.V. Dass -- 56. Hydrogen atom on null-plane and Melosh transformation / with H. Ruegg -- 57. Positronium atom on null-plane and Melosh transformation / with H. Ruegg -- 58. erenkov and transition radiation from particles with spin -- 59. Unstable particles in an electric field / with G. Karl -- 60. Partons of a one-dimensional box / with A.J.G. Hey -- 61. Partons of a spherical box / with A.C. Davis and J. Rafelski -- 62. On duality between resonances and free quark-antiquark pairs / with J. Pasupathy -- 63. JWKB connection for radial wave functions and bound-state/free-state duality / with J. Pasupathy -- 64. Testing Q[symbol] duality with non-relativistic potentials / with R.A. Bertlmann -- 65. Magic moments / with R.A. Bertlmann -- 66. Shifman-Vainshtein-Zakharov moments and quark-antiquark potentials / with R.A. Bertlmann -- 67. On solitons with half integral charge / with R. Rajaraman -- 68. Gluon condensate potentials / with R.A. Bertlmann -- 69. On states, on a lattice, with half-integral charge / with R. Rajaraman -- 70. SVZ moments for charmonium and potential model / with R.A. Bertlmann -- Section 3. Foundations of quantum mechanics. 71. On the problem of hidden variables in quantum mechanics -- 72. On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen paradox -- 73. The moral aspect of quantum mechanics / with M. Nauenberg -- 74. Introduction to the hidden-variable question -- 75. The measurement theory of Everett and De Broglie's pilot wave -- 76. Subject and object -- 77. On wave packet reduction in the Coleman-Hepp model -- 78. The theory of local beables -- 79. How to teach special relativity -- 80. Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen experiments -- 81. Free variables and local causality -- 82. Atomic-cascade photons and quantum-mechanical nonlocality -- 83. de Broglie-Bohm, delayed-choice, double-slit experiment, and density matrix -- 84. Quantum mechanics for cosmologists -- 85. Bertlmann's socks and the nature of reality -- 86. On the impossible pilot wave -- 87. Beables for quantum field theory -- 88. EPR correlations and EPW distributions -- 89. Are there quantum jumps? -- 90. Six possible worlds of quantum mechanics -- 91. Against 'measurement' -- 92. La nouvelle cuisine -- 93. In memory of George Francis FitzGerald. |