Elementary particles and emergent phase space - Źenczykowski, Piotr (World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2014)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-211) and index
1. Introduction -- pt. 1. Philosophy and physics. 2. Reality and its description. 2.1. The language factor. 2.2. Explanation and understanding. 2.3. Theories and physical reality -- 3. Classical and quantum aspects of reality. 3.1. Classical locality and quantum nonseparability. 3.2. Emergent space and time -- 4. Time for a change. 4.1. Things and processes. 4.2. Time and change -- pt. 2. Elementary particles. 5. The Standard Model and the subparticle paradigm. 5.1. Particles in space. 5.2. Beyond the Standard Model. 5.3. Preons -- 6. The problem of mass. 6.1. Leptons. 6.2. Quarks. 6.3. Hadron-level effects -- 7. Constituent quarks and spacetime points. 7.1. Hara's theorem. 7.2. Constituent quark model calculation. 7.3. Phenomenological analysis: help from experiment. 7.4. Combining current algebra and vector-meson dominance. 7.5. Reasons of CQM failure -- 8. Elementary particles and macroscopic space. 8.1. Hadrons and strings. 8.2. Pointlike subparticles or strings? 8.3. Particles and space -- pt. 3. Phase space and quantum. 9. Phase space and its symmetries. 9.1. The arena of nonrelativistic phase space. 9.2. Born's problem: mass vs. reciprocity. 9.3. Emergence of U(1) [symbol] SU(3) -- 10. Quantizing phase space. 10.1. Quantization via linearization. 10.2. Multiplets without subparticles -- 11. Elementary particles from a phase-space perspective. 11.1. From particle transformations to phase-space transformations. 11.2. Compositeness and additivity -- 12. Generalizing the concept of mass. 12.1. The Clifford algebra of nonrelativistic phase space. 12.2. The Clifford algebra and mass -- 13. Overview
"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 book discusses an extension of this view by replacing space with phase space. It combines the results of the author's research papers and places them in much broader philosophical and phenomenological contexts, thus providing further arguments in favor of the proposed alternative. The book should be of interest to the philosophically-minded readers who are willing to contemplate unorthodox ideas on the very nature of the world"--Provided by publisher