The Experimental Foundations of Particle Physics
2nd Edition
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- Authors:
- Robert N. Cahn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Gerson Goldhaber, University of California, Berkeley
- Date Published: July 2009
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521521475
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Our current understanding of elementary particles and their interactions emerged from break-through experiments. This book presents these experiments, beginning with the discoveries of the neutron and positron, and following them through mesons, strange particles, antiparticles, and quarks and gluons. This second edition contains new chapters on the W and Z bosons, the top quark, B-meson mixing and CP violation, and neutrino oscillations. This book provides an insight into particle physics for researchers, advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Throughout the book, the fundamental equations required to understand the experiments are derived clearly and simply. Each chapter is accompanied by reprinted articles and a collection of problems with a broad range of difficulty.
Read more- A unique, historical presentation of our current understanding of particle physics through an examination of break-through experiments
- Now covers the W and Z bosons, the top quark discovery, B-meson mixing and CP violation, and neutrino oscillations
- Each chapter is complemented by reprints of many of the basic discovery papers
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From reviews of the first edition: 'I believe this text to represent a major achievement in collecting, analysing and distilling for the reader, material forming an intensely exciting chapter in modern science.' D. H. Perkins, Nature
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: July 2009
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521521475
- length: 566 pages
- dimensions: 255 x 180 x 30 mm
- weight: 1.24kg
- contains: 69 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. The atom completed and a new particle
2. The Muon and the Pion
3. Strangeness
4. Antibaryons
5. The resonances
6. Weak interactions
7. The Neutral Kaon System
8. The Structure of the Nucleon
9. The J/Ψ, the Γ, and charm
10. Quarks, Gluons, and Jets
11. The Fifth Quark
12. From Neutral Currents to Weak Vector Bosons
13. Testing the Standard Model
14. The top quark
15. Mixing and CP violation in heavy quark mesons
16. Neutrino masses and oscillations
17. Epilogue
Index.
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