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The National Bureau of Standards' was established by an act of Congress March 3, 1901. The Bureau's overall goal is to strengthen and advance the Nation's science and technology and facilitate their effective application for public benefit. To this end, the Bureau conducts research and provides: (1) a basis for the Nation's physical measurement system, (2) scientific and technological services for industry and government, (3) a technical basis for equity in trade, and (4) technical services to promote public safety. The Bureau consists of the Institute for Basic Standards, the Institute for Materials Research, the Institute for Applied Technology, the Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology, and the Office for Information Programs. THE INSTITUTE FOR BASIC STANDARDS provides the central basis within the United States of a complete and consistent system of physical measurement; coordinates that system with measurement systems of other nations; and furnishes essential services leading to accurate and uniform physical measurements throughout the Nation's scientific community, industry, and commerce. The Institute consists of the Office of Measurement Services, the Office of Radiation Measurement and the following Center and divisions:

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THE OFFICE FOR INFORMATION PROGRAMS promotes optimum dissemination and accessibility of scientific information generated within NBS and other agencies of the Federal Government; promotes the development of the National Standard Reference Data System and a system of information analysis centers dealing with the broader aspects of the National Measurement System; provides appropriate services to ensure that the NBS staff has optimum accessibility to the scientific information of the world. The Office consists of the following organizational units:

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Dr. Betsy Ancker-Johnson, Assistant Secretary for Science and Technology
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TABLE I

TABLE II

Rotation and boost operators for fields of spin, 1, 3, and 2. Included are the
hyperbolic functions involving the parameter in terms of p, E, and m. In-
cluded also are the projection operators for the polarization component | σ |,
denoted by ....

List of Tables

The matrix operators S., S., B, and I corresponding to fields of spin 1⁄2, 1, 2,
and 2.---

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TABLE III

The matrix operators S., S', B', and I' corresponding to a field of spin 1 in
a cartesian representation._ _ _

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TABLE IV

Plane wave, positive energy spinors ur) (p) for fields of spin, 1, 1, and 2. with

a nonzero mass..

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TABLE V

Plane wave, positive energy, charge conjugate spinors vr) (p) for fields of spin
1, 1, 2, and 2 and their relation to the negative energy and momentum spin-
ors u ()(-p) with a nonzero mass.

TABLE VI

TABLE VII

TABLE VIII

TABLE IX

Plane wave, positive energy spinors wr) (p) for fields of spin, 1, 3, and 2 with

a nonzero mass.

Plane wave, positive energy, charge conjugate spinors yr (p) for fields of spin
1, 1, 2, and 2 and their relation to the negative energy and momentum spin-
ors w_((—p) with a nonzero mass..

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Completeness and orthogonality relations involving spinors of the spin field
with a nonzero mass._

Completeness and orthogonality relations involving spinors of the spin 1 field
with a nonzero mass..

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TABLE X

Completeness and orthogonality relations involving spinors of the spin field with

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a nonzero mass.

TABLE XI

Completeness and orthogonality relations involving spinors of the spin 2 field
with a nonzero mass..

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TABLE XII

Plane wave positive energy spinors z (p) for the gauge fields corresponding to
fields of spin 1, 3, and 2 with a nonzero mass.

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TABLE XIII

Plane wave positive energy spinors u (p) and wr) (p) for zero-mass fields of spin
1, 1, 1, and 2 in the "physical gauges.'

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TABLE XIV

Plane wave positive energy spinors for the zero-mass spin parity nonconserving
field....

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TABLE XV

Plane wave positive energy spinors ur) (p) for the zero-mass spin 1 field in the
"nonphysical" covariant gauge...

TABLE XVI
TABLE XVII

Some relationships between spinors in the indefinite metric.
Transformation properties of bilinear covariants and the energy-momentum
tensor under space inversion, time reversal, and charge conjugation and their
product.

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