Published March 9, 1992
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Journal article
Weyl-van der Waerden spinor technique for spin-3/2 fermions
Creators
- 1. Inst. de Fisica Teorica, Univ. Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo, SP (Brazil)
- 2. Univ. Louis Pasteur, 67 - Strasbourg (France)
Description
We use the Weyl-van Waerden spinor technique to construct helicity wave functions for massless and massive spin-3/2 fermions. We apply our formalism to evaluate helicity amplitudes taking into account some phenomenological couplings involving these particles. (orig.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Physics. B, Particle Physics
- Journal Volume
- 371
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Series
- Nucl. Phys., B Part. Phys.
- Journal Page Range
- 618-636
- ISSN
- 0550-3213
- CODEN
- NUPBB
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 23050244
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANNIHILATION; COUPLING; DECAY AMPLITUDES; DIRAC EQUATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FERMIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; HELICITY; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; MASSLESS PARTICLES; PAIR PRODUCTION; PHASE SPACE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RADIATIVE DECAY; RARITA-SCHWINGER THEORY; REST MASS; SCATTERING AMPLITUDES; SPIN ORIENTATION; SPINOR FIELDS; SPINORS; VECTOR FIELDS; WAVE FUNCTIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- AMPLITUDES; DECAY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EQUATIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; INTERACTIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MASS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; MECHANICS; ORIENTATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE DECAY; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE PRODUCTION; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SPACE; TRANSITION AMPLITUDES; WAVE EQUATIONS