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| Preface to the second edition | |
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| Preface to the first edition | |
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| Notation | |
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| The particle physicist's view of Nature | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The construction of the Standard Model | |
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| Leptons | |
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| Quarks and systems of quarks | |
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| Spectroscopy of systems of light quarks | |
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| More quarks | |
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| Quark colour | |
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| Electron scattering from nucleons | |
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| Particle accelerators | |
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| Units | |
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| Lorentz transformations | |
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| Rotations, boosts and proper Lorentz transformations | |
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| Scalars, contravariant and covariant four-vectors | |
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| Fields | |
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| The Levi-Civita tensor | |
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| Time reversal and space inversion | |
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| The Lagrangian formulation of mechanics | |
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| Hamilton's principle | |
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| Conservation of energy | |
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| Continuous systems | |
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| A Lorentz covariant field theory | |
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| The Klein-Gordon equation | |
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| The energy-momentum tensor | |
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| Complex scalar fields | |
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| Classical electromagnetism | |
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| Maxwell's equations | |
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| A Lagrangian density for electromagnetism | |
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| Gauge transformations | |
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| Solutions of Maxwell's equations | |
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| Space inversion | |
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| Charge conjugation | |
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| Intrinsic angular momentum of the photon | |
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| The energy density of the electromagnetic field | |
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| Massive vector fields | |
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| The Dirac equation and the Dirac field | |
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| The Dirac equation | |
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| Lorentz transformations and Lorentz invariance | |
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| The parity transformation | |
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| Spinors | |
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| The matrices [gamma][superscript mu] | |
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| Making the Lagrangian density real | |
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| Free space solutions of the Dirac equation | |
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| A Dirac particle at rest | |
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| The intrinsic spin of a Dirac particle | |
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| Plane waves and helicity | |
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| Negative energy solutions | |
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| The energy and momentum of the Dirac field | |
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| Dirac and Majorana fields | |
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| The E >> m limit, neutrinos | |
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| Electrodynamics | |
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| Probability density and probability current | |
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| The Dirac equation with an electromagnetic field | |
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| Gauge transformations and symmetry | |
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| Charge conjugation | |
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| The electrodynamics of a charged scalar field | |
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| Particles at low energies and the Dirac magnetic moment | |
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| Quantising fields: QED | |
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| Boson and fermion field quantisation | |
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| Time dependence | |
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| Perturbation theory | |
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| Renornmalisation and renormalisable field theories | |
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| The magnetic moment of the electron | |
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| Quantisation in the Standard Model | |
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| The weak interaction: low energy phenomenology | |
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| Nuclear beta decay | |
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| Pion decay | |
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| Conservation of lepton number | |
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| Muon decay | |
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| The interactions of muon neutrinos with electrons | |
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| Symmetry breaking in model theories | |
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| Global symmetry breaking and Goldstone bosons | |
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| Local symmetry breaking and the Higgs boson | |
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| Massive gauge fields | |
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| SU(2) symmetry | |
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| The gauge fields | |
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| Breaking the SU(2) symmetry | |
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| Identification of the fields | |
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| The Weinberg-Salam electroweak theory for leptons | |
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| Lepton doublets and the Weinberg-Salam theory | |
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| Lepton coupling to the W[superscript plusminus] | |
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| Lepton coupling to the Z | |
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| Conservation of lepton number and conservation of charge | |
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| CP symmetry | |
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| Mass terms in L: an attempted generalisation | |
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| Experimental tests of the Weinberg-Salam theory | |
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| The search for the gauge bosons | |
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| The W[superscript plusminus] bosons | |
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| The Z boson | |
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| The number of lepton families | |
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| The measurement of partial widths | |
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| Left-right production cross-section asymmetry and lepton decay asymmetry of the Z boson | |
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| The electromagnetic and weak interactions of quarks | |
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| Construction of the Lagrangian density | |
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| Quark masses and the Kobayashi-Maskawa mixing matrix | |
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| The parameterisation of the KM matrix | |
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| CP symmetry and the KM matrix | |
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| The weak interaction in the low energy limit | |
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| The hadronic decays of the Z and W bosons | |
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| Hadronic decays of the Z | |
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| Asymmetry in quark production | |
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| Hadronic decays of the W[superscript plusminus] | |
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| The theory of strong interactions: quantum chromodynamics | |
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| A local SU(3) gauge theory | |
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| Colour gauge transformations on baryons and raesons | |
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| Lattice QCD and asymptotic freedom | |
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| The quark-antiquark interaction at short distances | |
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| The conservation of quarks | |
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| Isospin symmetry | |
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| Chiral symmetry | |
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| Quantum chromodynamics: calculations | |
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| Lattice QCD and confinement | |
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| Lattice QCD and hadrons | |
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| Perturbative QCD and deep inelastic scattering | |
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| Perturbative QCD and e[superscript +]e[superscript -] collider physics | |
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| The Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix | |
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| Leptonic weak decays of hadrons | |
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| V[subscript ud] and nuclear [beta] decay | |
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| More leptonic decays | |
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| CP symmetry violation in neutral kaon decays | |
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| B meson decays and B[Degree], B[Degree] mixing | |
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| The CPT theorem | |
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| Neutrino masses and mixing | |
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| Neutrino masses | |
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| The weak currents | |
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| Neutrino oscillations | |
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| The MSW effect | |
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| Neutrino masses and the Standard Moael | |
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| Parameterisation of U | |
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| Lepton number conservation | |
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| Sterile neutrinos | |
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| Neutrino masses and mixing: experimental results | |
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| Introduction | |
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| K2K | |
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| Chooz | |
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| KamLAND | |
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| Atmospheric neutrinos | |
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| Solar neutrinos | |
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| Solar MSW effects | |
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| Future prospects | |
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| Majorana neutrinos | |
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| Majorana neutrino fields | |
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| Majorana Lagrangian density | |
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| Majorana field equations | |
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| Majorana neutrinos: mixing and oscillations | |
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| Parameterisation of U | |
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| Majorana neutrinos in the Standard Model | |
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| The seesaw mechanism | |
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| Are neutrinos Dirac or Majorana? | |
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| Anomalies | |
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| The Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly | |
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| Cancellation of anomalies in electroweak currents | |
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| Lepton and baryon anomalies | |
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| Gauge transformations and the topological number | |
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| The instability of matter, and matter genesis | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Reductionism complete? | |
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| An aide-memoire on matrices | |
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| Definitions and notation | |
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| Properties of n x n matrices | |
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| Hermitian and unitary matrices | |
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| A Fierz transformation | |
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| The groups of the Standard Model | |
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| Definition of a group | |
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| Rotations of the coordinate axes, and the group SO(3) | |
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| The group SU(2) | |
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| The group SL (2,C) and the proper Lorentz group | |
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| Transformations of the Pauli matrices | |
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| Spinors | |
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| The group SU(3) | |
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| Annihilation and creation operators | |
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| The simple harmonic oscillator | |
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| An assembly of bosons | |
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| An assembly of fermions | |
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| The parton model | |
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| Elastic electron scattering from nucleons | |
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| Inelastic electron scattering from nucleons: the parton model | |
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| Hadronic states | |
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| Mass matrices and mixing | |
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| K[Degree] and K[Degree] | |
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| B[Degree] and B[Degree] | |
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| References | |
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| Hints to selected problems | |
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| Index | |