Beyond the Nanoworld: Quarks, Leptons, and Gauge Bosons

by Dosch ,H. G.

• ISBN13: 9781568813455
• ISBN10: 1568813457
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-11
• Publisher: A. K. Peters

Summary

Beyond the world of atoms, at scales smaller than the smallest nuclei, a new world comes into view, populated by an array of colorful elementary particles: strange and charmed quarks, muons and neutrinos, gluons and photons, and many others, all interacting in beautifully intricate patterns. Beyond the Nanoworld tells the story of how this new realm was discovered. From the first discoveries of subatomic structure to the present-day hunt for the Higgs particle, the reader is invited to follow the twin branches of experimental and theoretical research as they wind through the twentieth century, culminating in the most successful physical theory of all time: the standard model of particle physics.

Author Biography

H.G. Dosch is Professor Emeritus of physics at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Heidelberg. He received his PhD in theoretical physics in 1963 and his thesis advisors were the Nobel laureate J.H. D. Jensen and Berthold Stech. He has coauthored a monograph titled ``Pomeron Physics and QCD.''

Table of Contents

The heroic time	p. 1
The great leap forward	p. 63
Up by their own bootstraps	p. 97
Composite elementary particles	p. 111
On the path to the standard model	p. 131
The standard model of particle physics	p. 165
Storm clouds or the dawn of a new physics?	p. 213
Epilog	p. 239
Glossary	p. 251
Physical units	p. 263
Nobel Prize winners	p. 267
Recommended reading	p. 277
Index	p. 279
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