Learning about spin-one-half fields
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.
- Publication:
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European Journal of Physics
- Pub Date:
- January 2006
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0143-0807/27/1/004
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/0507259
- Bibcode:
- 2006EJPh...27...29C
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- Fixed typo in this 19-page pedagogical paper on spinors and Majorana and Dirac fields