Learning about spin-one-half fields

DOI10.1088/0143-0807/27/1/004MaRDI QIDQ3376110zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter Cahill, K. Cahill

Publication date 20 March 2006

Published in European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0507259

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25)

Abstract: It is hard to understand spin-one-half fields without reading Weinberg. This paper is a pedagogical footnote to his formalism with an emphasis on the boost matrix, spinors, and Majorana fields.

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