A Palette of Particles
1st Edition
Published on 4. April 2013
224 pages
978-0-674-07362-3 (ISBN)
Description
Jeremy Bernstein guides readers through high-energy physics from early twentieth-century atomic models to leptons, mesons, quarks, and the newly discovered Higgs boson, drawing them into the excitement of a universe where 80 percent of all matter has never been identified. From molecules to galaxies, the more we discover, the less we seem to know.
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A Palette of Particles
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Jeremy Bernstein is the author of many books on science for the general reader, including Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element and Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma. He is a former staff writer for the New Yorker.
Jeremy Bernstein is the author of many books on science for the general reader, including Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element and Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma. He is a former staff writer for the New Yorker.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- I. Primary Colors
- 1. The Neutron
- 2. The Neutrino
- 3. The Electron and the Photon
- II. Secondary Colors
- 4. The Pion and the Muon
- 5. The Antiparticle
- 6. Strange Particles
- 7. The Quark
- III. Pastels
- 8. The Higgs Boson
- 9. Neutrino Cosmology
- 10. Squarks, Tachyons, and the Graviton
- L'Envoi
- Appendix 1: Accelerators and Detectors
- Appendix 2: Grand Unification
- Appendix 3: Neutrino Oscillations
- Acknowledgments
- Index
