Britannica Guide to Particle Physics
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2011
238 pages
978-1-61530-382-3 (ISBN)
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While the atom is universally acknowledged as the basis for most branches of physics, the study of its constituent particles has illuminated significant new areas of research. The behavior of subatomic particles provides crucial information on the structu
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Content
- BOOK COVER
- HALF-TITLE
- TITLE
- COPYRIGHT
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1 BASIC CONCEPTS OF PARTICLE PHYSICS
- THE DIVISIBLE ATOM
- SIZE
- ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
- SPIN
- ANTIPA RTICLES
- FOUR BASIC FORCES
- FIELD THEORY
- THE BASIC FORCES AND THEIR MESSENGER PARTICLES
- GRAVITY
- ELECTROMAGNETISM
- THE WEAK FORCE
- THE STRONG FORCE
- FEYNMAN DIAGRAMS
- CLASSES OF SUBATOMIC PARTICLES
- LEPTONS AND ANTILEPTONS
- HADRONS
- QUARKS AND ANTIQUARKS
- CHAPTER 2 THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN PARTICLE THEORY
- QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS: DESCRIBING THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCE
- QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS: DESCRIBING THE STRONG FORCE
- THE NUCLEAR BINDING FORCE
- "STRANGENESS"
- SU(3) SYMMETRY
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF QUARK THEORY
- COLOUR
- ASYMPTOTIC FREEDOM
- ELECTROWEAK THEORY: DESCRIBING THE WEAK FORCE
- BETA DECAY
- A UNIVERSAL WEAK FORCE
- EARLY THEORIES
- HIDDEN SYMMETRY
- FINDING THE MESSENGER PARTICLES
- CURRENT RESEARCH IN PARTICLE PHYSICS
- EXPERIMENTS
- THEORY
- CHAPTER 3 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
- PRINCIPLES OF PARTICLE ACCELERATION
- GENERATING PARTICLES
- ACCELERATING PARTICLES
- GUIDING PARTICLES
- COLLIDING PARTICLES
- DETECTING PARTICLES
- HISTORY
- CONSTANT-VOLTAGE ACCELERATORS
- VOLTAGE MULTIPLIERS (CASCADE GENERATORS)
- VAN DE GRAAFF GENERATORS
- BETATRONS
- CYCLOTRONS
- CLASSICAL CYCLOTRONS
- SYNCHROCYCLOTRONS
- SECTOR-FOCUSED CYCLOTRONS
- LINEAR RESONANCE ACCELERATORS
- LINEAR ELECTRON ACCELERATORS
- LINEAR PROTON ACCELERATORS
- SYNCHROTRONS
- ELECTRON SYNCHROTRONS
- PROTON SYNCHROTRONS
- COLLIDING-BEAM STORAGE RINGS
- ELECTRON STORAGE RINGS
- PROTON STORAGE RINGS
- ELECTRON-PROTON STORAGE RINGS
- IMPULSE ACCELERATORS
- FAMOUS PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
- ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY
- CERN AND THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER
- DESY
- FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY
- SLAC
- CONCLUSION
- CHAPTER 4 BIOGRAPHIES
- PATRICK M.S. BLACKETT
- SIR JAMES CHADWICK
- OWEN CHAMBERLAIN
- SIR JOHN DOUGLAS COCKCROFT
- RAYMOND DAVIS, JR.
- SHELDON GLASHOW
- DAVID J. GROSS
- WILLIAM WEBSTER HANSEN
- GERARDUS 'T HOOFT
- KOSHIBA MASATOSHI
- ERNEST ORLANDO LAWRENCE
- TSUNG-DAO LEE
- EDWIN MATTISON MCMILLAN
- SIMON VAN DER MEER
- YOICHIRO NAMBU
- H. DAVID POLITZER
- CARLO RUBBIA
- ABDUS SALAM
- EMILIO SEGRÈ
- ROBERT JEMISON VAN DE GRAAFF
- ERNEST THOMAS SINTON WALTON
- STEVEN WEINBERG
- FRANK WILCZEK
- EDWARD WITTEN
- CHEN NING YANG
- YUKAWA HIDEKI
- DEGENERATE GAS
- FERMI-DIRAC STATISTICS
- HYPERON
- ISOSPIN
- J/PSI PARTICLE
- NEUTRON OPTICS
- RENORMALIZATION
- GLOSSARY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- BOOKS FOR THE NONPHYSICIST
- TEXTBOOKS
- HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS
- PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
- INDEX
- BACK COVER
