between particle physics and representation theory, as first noted in the 1930s by Eugene Wigner. It links the properties of elementary particles to the...

theoretical physics. In a physical theory having Minkowski space as the underlying spacetime, the space of physical states is typically a representation of the...

Particle physics and representation theory Wigner's classification Particle segregation Self-propelled particle List of particles Wave–particle duality...

Particle physics or high-energy physics is the study of fundamental particles and forces that constitute matter and radiation. The field also studies...

methods of analysis to be applied to the theory of groups. Furthermore, representation theory is important in physics because it can describe how the symmetry...

ISBN 9781107034730. Taylor, John (1992). "Gauge theories in particle physics". In Davies, Paul (ed.). The New Physics (1st pbk. ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge...

In particle physics, flavour or flavor refers to the species of an elementary particle. The Standard Model counts six flavours of quarks and six flavours...

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classify particles and fields in physics—see the article particle physics and representation theory. It relies on the stabilizer subgroups of that group,...

mathematics and theoretical physics, a representation of a Lie group is a linear action of a Lie group on a vector space. Equivalently, a representation is a...

of the Higgs field, one of the fields in particle physics theory. In the Standard Model, the Higgs particle is a massive scalar boson with zero spin,...

group). These two concepts, Lie and finite groups, are the foundation for the fundamental theories of modern physics. Symmetries are frequently amenable...

A Grand Unified Theory (GUT) is any model in particle physics that merges the electromagnetic, weak, and strong forces (the three gauge interactions of...

point particle, ideal particle or point-like particle (often spelled pointlike particle) is an idealization of particles heavily used in physics. Its defining...

Standard Model of particle physics is the theory describing three of the four known fundamental forces (electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions...

In the mathematical field of representation theory, a Lie algebra representation or representation of a Lie algebra is a way of writing a Lie algebra...

In particle physics, the Georgi–Glashow model is a particular Grand Unified Theory (GUT) proposed by Howard Georgi and Sheldon Glashow in 1974. In this...

In physics, the eightfold way is an organizational scheme for a class of subatomic particles known as hadrons that led to the development of the quark...

In physics, a subatomic particle is a particle smaller than an atom. According to the Standard Model of particle physics, a subatomic particle can be...

fundamental theory that describes the behavior of nature at and below the scale of atoms.: 1.1  It is the foundation of all quantum physics, which includes...

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general relativity and supersymmetry: its fundamental representation is the so-called spinor representation, while its adjoint representation generates the...

string theory has developed into a broad and varied subject with connections to quantum gravity, particle and condensed matter physics, cosmology, and pure...

ordinary particles, the longer the virtual particle exists. They are important in the physics of many processes, including particle scattering and Casimir...

In the study of the representation theory of Lie groups, the study of representations of SU(2) is fundamental to the study of representations of semisimple...

carried by elementary particles, and thus by composite particles such as hadrons, atomic nuclei, and atoms.: 183–184  Spin is quantized, and accurate models...

quasiparticles. The current standard model of particle physics is based on quantum field theory. Quantum field theory emerged from the work of generations of...

chirality of a particle is more abstract: It is determined by whether the particle transforms in a right- or left-handed representation of the Poincaré...

existence of mass and spin (normally explained in Wigner's classification of relativistic mechanics) in terms of the representation theory of the Galilean...