Learning about spin-one-half fields
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v5
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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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0507259,
title = {Learning about spin-one-half fields},
author = {Peter Cahill and Kevin Cahill},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0507259},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Fixed typo in this 19-page pedagogical paper on spinors and Majorana and Dirac fields