Elementary particles and emergent phase space / Piotr Zenczykowski, Institue of Nuclear Physics, Poland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Źenczykowski, Piotr, 1950-

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phase space (Statistical physics).

Particles (Nuclear physics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 219 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New Jersey : World Scientific, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Standard Model of elementary particles, although very successful, contains various elements that are put in by hand. Understanding their origin requires going beyond the model and searching for ""new physics"". The present book elaborates on one particular proposal concerning such physics. While the original conception is 50 years old, it has not lost its appeal over time. Its basic idea is that space - an arena of events treated in the Standard Model as a classical background - is a concept which emerges from a strictly discrete quantum layer in the limit of large quantum numbers. This bo

Contents:

Introduction

Reality and its description

Classical and quantum aspects of reality

Time for a change

The standard model and the subparticle paradigm

The problem of mass

Constituent quarks and spacetime points

Elementary particles and macroscopic space

Phase space and its symmetries

Quantizing phase space

Elementary particles from a phase-space perspective

Generalizing the concept of mass

Overview.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789814525695

9814525693

OCLC:

860388641