
Britannica Guide to Particle Physics
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- 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
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