Kent W. Staley

The Evidence for the Top Quark

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 2004 book offers a historical and philosophical perspective on evidence for the elementary particle known as the top quark.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 737g
• ISBN-13: 9780521827102
• ISBN-10: 0521827108
• Artikelnr.: 22233643

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Origins of the third generation of matter
2. Building a detector and a collaboration to run it
3. Doing physics: CDF closes in on the top
4. Writing up the evidence: The evolution of a result
5. Run Ib: 'Observation' of the top quark, and second thoughts and 'evidence'
6. A model of the experiment: Error statistical evidence and the top quark
7. Bias, uncertainty, and evidence
Epilogue.