Theory of Heavy Quanta: Proefschrift

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Abstract

I. Undor Calculus and Charge-Conjugation -- Zusammenfassung. Resumo -- § 1. Introduction -- § 2. The Dirac wave-function (undor of the first rank) -- § 3. Charge-conjugation of four-spinors -- § 4. Neutrettors of the first rank -- § 5. Undors of the second rank -- § 6. Covariant undor calculus -- References -- II. The Undor Equation of the Meson Field -- Zusammenfassung. Resumo -- § 1. The Proca-Kemmer meson equation in undor notation -- § 2. The generalized meson equation and the neutretto equation -- § 3. The charge-conjugated meson equation -- § 4. The charge current-density and the magnetic moment of mesons -- § 5. Charge-invariance and statistics -- References -- III. The Heavy Quanta Theory of Nuclear and Cosmic Ray Phenomena -- § 1. Introduction -- § 2. The four types of meson fields proposed by Kemmer and the simplified deuteron problem -- § 3. The charge-dependence of nuclear forces -- § 4. Quantization and relativistic invariance of the theory -- § 5. Elimination of the longitudinal electromagnetic field -- § 6. Discussion of the Hamiltonian -- § 7. The heavy quanta interaction between nuclons -- § 8. The deuteron problem -- § 9. The neutron-proton scattering -- § 10. The spontaneous disintegration of heavy quanta. -- § 11. The ?-disintegration of instable nuclei -- § 12. Scattering and absorption of mesons by nuclei -- § 13. Discussion of the limits and the value of the theory -- References -- Samenvatting.