History of Original Ideas and Basic Discoveries in Particle Physics

ISBN-13: 9780306452178 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 1018 str.

Newman; Harvey B. Newman; Thomas Ypsilantis

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Contains the proceedings of a July-August 1994 workshop which brought together 60 leading scientists, including many Nobel Laureates in high energy physics and principal contributors in other fields of physics, and 36 selected up-and-coming physicists. First-hand accounts by the authors of some of t

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Indirect Approaches to Fundamental Theory; M. GellMann. Quantum Electrodynamics: From a Personal Perspective; T. Kinoshita. Electroweak Reminiscences; S. Weinberg. Asymptotic Freedom, Confinement and QCD; D. Gross. Gluons; J.G. Branson. QCD-In Her Maiden Years; A. de Rujula. Test of QED and Photoproduction of Vector Mesons; U. Becker. Foundations of Sequential Heavy Lepton Searches; A. Zichichi. The Discovery of the Tau Lepton; M. Perl. Parity Violation; C.S. Wu. Comment on Parity Nonconservation in a Fermi Transition; F. Boehm. The Detection of Pauli's Neutrino; F. Reines. Electron-Positron and Electron-Proton Colliders; G. Voss. Linear Colliders; R. Orava. The Tevatron Hadron Colliders; A. Tollestrup. Grand Unified Theories; H. Georgi. Technicolor; K. Lane. Supersymmetric Unification; S. Dimopoulos. Baryon Spectroscopy and the Omegaminus; N. Samios. Deep Inelastic Scattering Evidence for the Reality of Quarks; J. Friedman. Neutral Currents; B. Aubert. Richard Feynman and the History of Superconductivity; D. Goodstein. High Temperature Superconductivity; P.C.W. Chu. Neutrino Oscillations-History, Status, and Challenge; F. Boehm. Dark Matter; R. Sadoulet. 25 additional articles. Index.