Question

This scientist and a Swiss-American collaborator name a form of renormalization that involves introducing an auxiliary high mass field. A term of “sigma dot p minus q A squared” plus “phi q” appears on the left side of a bra-ket in this scientist’s namesake equation, which modifies the Schrödinger equation to account for a particle’s spin in a field. This physicist rederived Markus Fiersz’s formulation of the (*) spin-statistics (-5[1])theorem. A consequence of a statement named for this physicist is the degeneracy pressure that supports white dwarfs. To explain how beta decay conserved energy, momentum, and angular momentum, this physicist postulated the existence of neutrinos. For 10 points, two fermions cannot occupy the same quantum state according to what physicist’s (10[1])“exclusion principle”? ■END■

ANSWER: Wolfgang Pauli [accept Pauli-Villars regularization or Pauli exclusion principle]
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2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y1100%0%100%119.00