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In Chap. 3 we discussed the theory of neutral mesons. Two elementary particles that frequently occur in Nature, the electron and the proton, are however particles which possess intrinsic angular momentum: spin = 1/2. Since a scalar field offers no opportunity for describing spin we must seek another description for these particles
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Nachtmann, O. (1990). The Dirac Equation and the Dirac Field. In: Elementary Particle Physics. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61281-7_4
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