Wave Functions for Particles of Higher Spin

27 May 1966

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B

Vol. 145 (4) , 1152-1153
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.145.1152

Abstract

A simple method is presented for constructing wave functions for particles of arbitrary spin. These are helicity eigenstates and satisfy the Rarita-Schwinger equation. The wave functions are given explicitly.

Keywords

FUNCTIONS
WAVE
HELICITY
RARITA
EXPLICITLY
EIGENSTATES
SATISFY
SCHWINGER
EQUATION
ARBITRARY

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