Explicit expressions of spin wave functions

1999/06/04 by Jie-Jie Zhu, Zhu, Jie-Jie
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9906250

An old paper. 5 pages, RevTeX, no figures

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Abstract

We derive the explicit expressions of the canonical and helicity wave functions for massive particles with arbitrary spins. Properties of these wave functions are discussed.

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