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The relevance of positivity in spin physics

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 نشر من قبل Jacques Soffer
 تاريخ النشر 2009
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Positivity reduces substantially the allowed domain for spin observables. We briefly recall some methods used to determine these domains and give some typical examples for exclusive and inclusive spin-dependent reactions.



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