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It is customary in elementary particle physics and field theories to choose the system of units such that the resulting expressions assume a simple form. In particular, instead of working with the usual three mechanical units for length, mass and time one introduces three basic units for velocity, action and length.
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Mosel, U. (1999). Units and Metric. In: Fields, Symmetries, and Quarks. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03841-3_1
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