Exploring Fundamental Particles

ISBN-13: 9781138429673 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Lincoln Wolfenstein

Opis

Presenting an overview of developments in and components of the standard model of particle physics, this book examines the issues confronting those working in the field. It focuses on the three areas of elementary particle physics - CP violation, the physics of neutrinos, particularly neutrino mass, and the search for the Higgs boson.

Recenzje

The authors are well qualified to undertake such an introduction to particle and high-energy physics in view of their theoretical and practical experience … For a clear and comparatively simple overview of the concepts, nomenclature and salient features of the Standard Model, this introductory text offers a wealth of information and can be recommended as a jumping off point for more detailed specialist study.
—Eric Sheldon, Contemporary Physics, 52, 2011

Spis treści

GENESIS OF THE STANDARD MODEL: The Foundation of Modern Physics: The Legacy of Newton. Waves That Are Particles; Particles That Are Waves. Particles That Spin. Understanding Quantum Electrodynamics: Feynman to the Rescue. The Birth of Particle Physics: Pauli's Neutrino, Fermi's Weak Interaction, and Yukawa's Pion. Learning to Live with Gell-Mann's Quarks. Beautiful Symmetries Found and Lost. Emergence of the Standard Model. Flavor Physics. Our Current View of Nature's Building Blocks: (What We Have Learned So Far). CP VIOLATION: THE ASYMMETRY BETWEEN MATTER AND ANTIMATTER: CP Violation in Kaon Decays. The Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Matrix: CP Violation in the Standard Model. CP Violation with B Mesons. Checking the Standard Model: The Rho-Eta Plane. CP Violation: Where Do We Go from Here?. THE AMAZING STORY OF THE NEUTRINO: The Mystery of the Missing Neutrinos: Neutrino Oscillations. Neutrinos from the Sun. Neutrino Astronomy: A New Way to Study the Universe. Neutrino Mass and Physics beyond the Standard Model. CP Violation in Neutrino Mixing?. THE HUNT FOR THE MYSTERIOUS HIGGS: Why We Believe in the Higgs. What We Know from Experiment So Far. What We Hope to Learn from the LHC. Possibilities for the Future. Conclusion. Appendices.

O autorze

Lincoln Wolfenstein is professor emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University. He has made landmark contributions to the particle physics community, including his prediction and study of the influence of matter on neutrino oscillations, now known as the Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect. Dr. Wolfenstein has been a recipient of the J.J. Sakurai Prize of the American Physical Society and the Bruno Pontecorvo Prize of the Scientific Council of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russia).Joao P. Silva is a faculty member at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa and works at the Centro de Fisica Teorica de Particulas. Dr. Silva was a Fulbright Scholar at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. He also co-authored a research textbook on CP violation.