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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453242403321

Autore

Źenczykowski Piotr <1950->

Titolo

Elementary particles and emergent phase space / / Piotr Żenczykowski, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Poland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Jersey : , : World Scientific, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

981-4525-69-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Disciplina

530.13/3

Soggetti

Phase space (Statistical physics)

Particles (Nuclear physics)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Reality and its description -- Classical and quantum aspects of reality -- Time for a change -- The standard model and the subparticle paradigm -- The problem of mass -- Constituent quarks and spacetime points -- Elementary particles and macroscopic space -- Phase space and its symmetries -- Quantizing phase space -- Elementary particles from a phase-space perspective -- Generalizing the concept of mass -- Overview.

Sommario/riassunto

The Standard Model of elementary particles, although very successful, contains various elements that are put in by hand. Understanding their origin requires going beyond the model and searching for ""new physics"". The present book elaborates on one particular proposal concerning such physics. While the original conception is 50 years old, it has not lost its appeal over time. Its basic idea is that space - an arena of events treated in the Standard Model as a classical background - is a concept which emerges from a strictly discrete quantum layer in the limit of large quantum numbers. This bo