Tomographic representation of spin and quark states

We present a short review of the general principles of constructing tomograms of quantum states. We derive a general tomographic reconstruction formula for the quantum density operator of a system with a dynamical Lie group. In the reconstruction formula, the multiplicity of irreducible representation in Clebsch-Gordan decomposition is taken into account. Various approaches to spin tomography are discussed. An integral representation for the tomographic probability is found and a contraction of the spin tomogram to the photon-number tomography distribution is considered. The case of SU (3) tomography is discussed with the examples of quark states (related to the simplest triplet representations) and octet states.