Weak Neutral Currents
The Discovery Of The Electro-weak Force
1st Edition
Published on 17. June 2019
Book
Hardback
444 pages
978-0-367-21332-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book attempts to trace the key experimental developments that led to the discovery of weak neutral currents in 1973 and the W, Z bosons in 1983, all of the results of which culminated in the identification of the unified-electroweak force.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
980 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-21332-9 (9780367213329)
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Person
Cline, David
Content
1. The Weak Interaction Uncovered (H. Becquerel to W. Pauli): In the Beginning (1896 - 1933) 2. Forty Years of Weak Interactions (Charged Currents): Fermi to Fermilab (1933 - 1973) 3. The Search for Other Forms of the Weak Interaction: Changing Flavors (1963 - 1970) 4. The Electroweak Interaction Picture Emerges: Everyone Missed It (1962 - 1973) 5. The Discovery of Weak Neutral Currents: Nothing In - Nothing Out (1973 - 1974) 6. Other Weak-Neutral Current Processes, Parity Violation in Weak Neutral Currents, and sin2?w: A Force in the Mirror (1975 - 1978) 7. On to the W and Z Particles: The Electroweak Force Rises (1976 - 1983) 8. High Precision Studies of the Electroweak Force: From the Top Down (1983 - 1995) 9. Back to the Future with the Higgs Boson: The God Particle Again (1995 - 2010)