| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Facts and mysteries in elementary particle physics/ Martinus J.G. Veltman. |
| Author: |
Veltman, Martinus. |
| Published: |
River Edge, NJ :World Scientific Pub., : c2003., |
| Description: |
viii, 340 p. :ill. ;23 cm. |
| Notes: |
Includes index. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Preliminaries. Atoms, nuclei and particles -- Photons -- Antiparticles -- Mass and energy -- Events -- Electron-volts and other units -- Particle names and the Greek alphabet -- Scientific notation -- Standard model. Conservation of energy and charge -- Quantum numbers -- Color -- Electron-neutrino, electron number and crossing -- First family -- Families and forces -- Spin 1/2 particles -- Spin 1 and 2 particles -- Forces and interactions -- Classification of interactions -- Electromagnetic, weak, strong, Higgs and gravitational interactions -- Representing interactions -- Origin of quantum numbers -- Quantum mechanics. Mixing. Two-slit experiment -- Amplitude and probability -- Cabibbo and CKM mixing -- Neutrino mixing -- Particle mixing -- Energy, momentum and mass-shell. Conservation laws -- Relativity -- Relativistic invariance -- Relation E [equals] mc [squared] -- Detection. Photoelectric effect -- Bubble chambers -- Spark chambers -- Proportional wire chambers -- Accelerators and storage rings. Energy bubbles -- Accelerators -- Secondary beams -- Machine builders -- CERN neutrino experiment. Experimental set-up -- Neutrino physics -- First neutrino experiments -- Vector bosons -- Missed opportunities --Particle zoo. Bound states -- Structure of quark bound states -- Spin of a bound state -- Mesons -- Baryons -- Exotics -- Discovering quarks -- Triplets versus doublets and lepton-quark symmetry -- Particle theory. Feynman rules - Infinites -- Perturbation theory -- Renormalizability -- Weak interactions -- Compton scattering -- Neutral vector bosons -- Charmed quarks -- Higgs particle -- General Higgs couplings -- Speculations -- [Rho]-parameter -- Finding the Higgs. Quantum chromodynamics. Confinement -- Asymptotic freedom -- Scaling. |
| Subject: |
Particles (Nuclear physics) - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=126917An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
9812563024 (electronic bk.) |