A Palette of Particles / Jeremy Bernstein.
Bernstein, Jeremy, author.
2013
QC793.26
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Title A Palette of Particles / Jeremy Bernstein.
Author Bernstein, Jeremy, author.
ISBN 9780674073623
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674073623
Published Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (220 p.) : 11 halftones, 11 line illustrations, 3 tables
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674073623 doi
Call Number QC793.26
Dewey Decimal Classification 539.72
Summary From molecules to stars, much of the cosmic canvas can be painted in brushstrokes of primary color: the protons, neutrons, and electrons we know so well. But for meticulous detail, we have to dip into exotic hues-leptons, mesons, hadrons, quarks. Bringing particle physics to life as few authors can, Jeremy Bernstein here unveils nature in all its subatomic splendor. In this graceful account, Bernstein guides us through high-energy physics from the early twentieth century to the present, including such highlights as the newly discovered Higgs boson. Beginning with Ernest Rutherford's 1911 explanation of the nucleus, a model of atomic structure emerged that sufficed until the 1930s, when new particles began to be theorized and experimentally confirmed. In the postwar period, the subatomic world exploded in a blaze of unexpected findings leading to the theory of the quark, in all its strange and charmed variations. An eyewitness to developments at Harvard University and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Bernstein laces his story with piquant anecdotes of such luminaries as Wolfgang Pauli, Murray Gell-Mann, and Sheldon Glashow. Surveying the dizzying landscape of contemporary physics, Bernstein remains optimistic about our ability to comprehend the secrets of the cosmos-even as its mysteries deepen. We now know that over eighty percent of the universe consists of matter we have never identified or detected. A Palette of Particles draws readers into the excitement of a field where the more we discover, the less we seem to know.
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E-BOOK PAKET CHEMIE, MATERIALWISS., BIOLOGIE, GEOWISS. 2013
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Primary Colors
1 The Neutron
2 The Neutrino
3 The Electron and the Photon
Part II: Secondary Colors
4 The Pion and the Muon
5 The Antiparticle
6 Strange Particles
7 The Quark
Part III: Pastels
8 The Higgs Boson
9 Neutrino Cosmology
10 Squarks, Tachyons, and the Graviton
L'Envoi
Appendix 1: Accelerators and Detectors
Appendix 2: Grand Unification
Appendix 3: Neutrino Oscillations
Acknowledgments
Index

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