1st Edition

The Eightfold Way

By Murray Gell-mann Copyright 2000
    398 Pages
    by CRC Press

    400 Pages
    by CRC Press

    This monograph presents thirty research papers dealing with the classification of strongly interacting particles and their interaction according to the eightfold way. In each chapter the authors' commentary introduces the reprints.

    Remarks on the History of Strong-Interaction Symmetries , The Broken Symmetry and the Mass Formula , The Eightfold Way , Derivation of Strong Interactions from a Gauge Invariance , Note on Unitary Symmetry in Strong Interactions*) , The Decimet and the Omega-Minus , Strange Particle Physics. Strong Interactions , Observation of a Hyperon with Strangeness Minus Three , Further Assignments of Supermultiplets , Eightfold-Way Assignments for Y 1*(1660) and Other Baryons , The Meson ?(725) and the Eightfold Way , Baryon-Baryon Interactions and the Eightfold Way , ?-? Mixing , Possible Existence of a T = 0 Vector Meson at 1020 MeV † , ?? Mixing , Experimental Consequences of ?–? Mixing , Intensity Rules , The Octet Model and its Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients , Verification of The Tenfold Assignment of The Baryon Resonances , Comparison of A New SU3 Prediction With Experiment , Electromagnetic Interactions of The Hadrons , Electrodynamic Properties of Baryons in The Unitary Symmetry Scheme , Some Consequences of Unitary Symmetry Model 1 , Triplets and Triality , A Schematic Model of Baryons and Mesons 1 , The Weak Current of The Hadrons , The Symmetry Group of Vector and Axial Vector Currents , Unitary Symmetry and Leptonic Decays , Conserved and Partially Conserved Currents in the Theory of Weak Interactions , Symmetries of Baryons and Mesons , Current-Generated Algebras , The Nonleptonic Weak Interaction , Octet Enhancement , Possible Unitary Symmetry Properties of the Intermediate Bosons and their Interactions , Nonleptonic Weak Decays and the Eightfold Way , Broken Symmetry and the Bootstrap Hypothesis , A Mechanism for the Induction of Symmetries Among the Strong Interactions , Spontaneous Breakdown of Octet Symmetry , Self-Consistent Deviations from Unitary Symmetry , The Fifth Interaction , The Physical Uniqueness of the Eightfold Way , The Symmetry Approach to Particle Physics , New Contributions , Particle Theory From S-Matrix to Quarks , Hadron Symmetry, Classification and Compositeness , Appendix I , Appendix II , Appendix III

    Biography

    Murray Gell-mann