Lincoln Wolfenstein, Joao P. Silva

Exploring Fundamental Particles (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A clear picture of the historic breakthroughs and latest findings in the particle physics community, this book presents the theories and experiments surrounding fundamental particles and the main forces between them. It traces the development of this fascinating field, from the discoveries of Newton, Fermi, and Feynman to the detection of CP violation and neutrinos to the quest to observe the Higgs boson and beyond. The authors cover the standard model, CP violation, neutrinos, and the Higgs boson. They also discuss the importance of the LHC and ILC and shed light on past experiments and recent discoveries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040197936
• Artikelnr.: 72583872

Autorenporträt

Lincoln Wolfenstein is professor emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University. He has made landmark contributions to the particle physics community, including his prediction and study of the influence of matter on neutrino oscillations, now known as the Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect. Dr. Wolfenstein has been a recipient of the J.J. Sakurai Prize of the American Physical Society and the Bruno Pontecorvo Prize of the Scientific Council of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russia).

Joao P. Silva is a faculty member at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa and works at the Centro de Fisica Teorica de Particulas. Dr. Silva was a Fulbright Scholar at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. He also co-authored a research textbook on CP violation.

Inhaltsangabe

GENESIS OF THE STANDARD MODEL: The Foundation of Modern Physics: The Legacy
of Newton. Waves That Are Particles; Particles That Are Waves. Particles
That Spin. Understanding Quantum Electrodynamics: Feynman to the Rescue.
The Birth of Particle Physics: Pauli's Neutrino, Fermi's Weak Interaction,
and Yukawa's Pion. Learning to Live with Gell-Mann's Quarks. Beautiful
Symmetries Found and Lost. Emergence of the Standard Model. Flavor Physics.
Our Current View of Nature's Building Blocks: (What We Have Learned So
Far). CP VIOLATION: THE ASYMMETRY BETWEEN MATTER AND ANTIMATTER: CP
Violation in Kaon Decays. The Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Matrix: CP
Violation in the Standard Model. CP Violation with B Mesons. Checking the
Standard Model: The Rho-Eta Plane. CP Violation: Where Do We Go from Here?.
THE AMAZING STORY OF THE NEUTRINO: The Mystery of the Missing Neutrinos:
Neutrino Oscillations. Neutrinos from the Sun. Neutrino Astronomy: A New
Way to Study the Universe. Neutrino Mass and Physics beyond the Standard
Model. CP Violation in Neutrino Mixing?. THE HUNT FOR THE MYSTERIOUS HIGGS:
Why We Believe in the Higgs. What We Know from Experiment So Far. What We
Hope to Learn from the LHC. Possibilities for the Future. Conclusion.
Appendices.