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MURRAY GELL-MANN
Selected Papers
edited by Harald Fritzsch (University of Munich, Germany)
464pp
978-981-4261-62-3(pbk): US$48 / £32 US$36
/ £24
978-981-283-684-7: US$105 / £69 US$78.75
/ £51.75
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.
Contents:
- The Garden of Live Flowers
- Strangeness
- Quantum Electrodynamics at Small Distances
- Theory of the Fermi Interaction
- The Eightfold Way: A Theory of Strong
Interaction Symmetry
- Symmetries of Baryons and Mesons
- A Schematic Model of Baryons and Mesons
- Current Topics in Particle Physics
- Quarks
- Current Algebra: Quarks and What Else?
- Particle Theory: From S-Matrix to Quarks
- Time Symmetry and Asymmetry in Quantum
Mechanics and Quantum Cosmology
- Progress in Elementary Particle Theory,
1950-1964
- Nature Conformable to Herself
- Quarks, Color and QCD
- Effective Complexity
- and other papers
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