Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics

Name: Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics
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ISBN: 9789812381491

ISBN-10: 981238149X

ISBN-13: 9789812381491

Edition: 2003

Authors: M. G. Veltman

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List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 348
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Introduction


Acknowledgments


Further Reading


Thumbnail Sketches


Equations



Preliminaries



Atoms, Nuclei and Particles



Photons



Antiparticles



Mass and Energy



Events



Electron-Volts and Other Units



Particle Names and the Greek Alphabet



Scientific Notation



The Standard Model



Introduction



Conservation of Energy and Charge



Quantum Numbers



Color



The Electron-Neutrino, Electron Number and Crossing



The First Family



Families and Forces



The Spin 1/2 Particles



The Spin 1 and 2 Particles



Forces and Interactions



Classification of Interactions



Electromagnetic, Weak, Strong, Higgs and Gravitational Interactions



Representing Interactions



The Origin of Quantum Numbers



Quantum Mechanics. Mixing



Introduction



The Two-Slit Experiment



Amplitude and Probability



Cabibbo and CKM Mixing



Neutrino Mixing



Particle Mixing



Energy, Momentum and Mass-Shell



Introduction



Conservation Laws



Relativity



Relativistic Invariance



The Relation E = mc[superscript 2]



Detection



Introduction



Photoelectric Effect



Bubble Chambers



Spark Chambers



Proportional Wire Chambers



Accelerators and Storage Rings



Energy Bubbles



Accelerators



Secondary Beams



The Machine Builders



The CERN Neutrino Experiment



Introduction



Experimental Set-up



Neutrino Physics



The First Neutrino Experiments



Vector Bosons



Missed Opportunities



Epilogue



The Particle Zoo



Introduction



Bound States



The Structure of Quark Bound States



Spin of a Bound State



Mesons



Baryons



Exotics



Discovering Quarks



Triplets versus Doublets and Lepton-Quark Symmetry



Particle Theory



Introduction



Feynman Rules



Infinities



Perturbation Theory



Renormalizability



Weak Interactions



Compton Scattering



Neutral Vector Bosons



Charmed Quarks



The Higgs Particle



General Higgs Couplings



Speculations



[rho]-Parameter



Finding the Higgs



Quantum Chromodynamics



Introduction



Confinement



Asymptotic Freedom



Scaling



Epilogue


Name Index


Subject Index


Photo Credits