The Particle Century

ISBN-13: 9780750305433 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 232 str.

Gordon Fraser; G. Fraser

Opis

A review of the status of particle physics at the end of the century. The text explains the achievements in particle physics, the 20 essays covering the post war period to the 1990s.

Spis treści

From the ashes (C Westfall and J Krige). Cosmic rain (W O Lock). First accelerator fruits (N Samios). The 3-quark picture (Y Ne'eman). Proton structure (J Friedman and H Kendall). Gauge theory (M Veltman). Unexpected windfall (R Schwitters). Weak interactions (C Sutton). The weak force carriers (C Rubbia). Quark matrix (A Ali). Quark glue (S-L Wu). The Standard Model (G Altarelli). The top quark (M Shochet). Beyond the Standard Model (G Ross). The tools 1: accelerators (E J N Wilson). The tools 2: detectors. Astroparticle physics (J Ellis). Big Bang dynamics (Q Shafi). Astronomy (A Fabian). Outlook.

O autorze

Gordon Fraser