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Clifford Algebras and Spinors

  • 1. Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (Italy)
  • 2. Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Tsarigradsko Chaussee 72, BG-1784 Sofia (Bulgaria)

Description

Expository notes on Clifford algebras and spinors with a detailed discussion of Majorana, Weyl, and Dirac spinors. The paper is meant as a review of background material, needed, in particular, in now fashionable theoretical speculations on neutrino masses. It has a more mathematical flavour than the over twenty-six-year-old Introduction to Majorana masses [M84] and includes historical notes and biographical data on past participants in the story. (author)

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Also available at: http://users.ictp.it/~pub_off/preprints-sources/2010/IC2010104P.pdf

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
26 p.
Report number
IC--2010/104

INIS

Country of Publication
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
43048770
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
CLIFFORD ALGEBRA; FLAVOR MODEL; NEUTRINOS; SPINORS
Descriptors DEC
COMPOSITE MODELS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUARK MODEL

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
Grant DO 02-257
Notes
1 tab, 42 refs
Funding organization
Bulgarian National Science Foundation (Bulgaria)