The Rise of the Standard Model: A History of Particle Physics from 1964 to 1979

by Edited by Lillian Hoddeson , Laurie Brown , Michael Riordan , Max Dresden

• ISBN13: 9780521578165
• ISBN10: 0521578167
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Editors Laurie Brown, Max Dresden, Lillian Hoddeson and Michael Riordan have brought together a distinguished group of elementary particle physicists and historians of science to explore the recent history of particle physics. Based on a conference held at Stanford University, this is the third volume of a series recounting the history of particle physics and offers the most up-to-date account of the rise of the Standard Model, which explains the microstructure of the world in terms of quarks and leptons and their interactions. Major contributors include Steven Weinberg, Murray Gell-Mann, Michael Redhead, Silvan Schweber, Leon Lederman and John Heilbron. The wide-ranging articles explore the detailed scientific experiments, the institutional settings in which they took place, and the ways in which the many details of the puzzle fit together to account for the Standard Model.

Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction: 1. The rise of the standard model: 1964-1979 Laurie M. Brown et al.

2. Changing attitudes and the standard model Steven Weinberg

3. Two previous standard models John Heilbron

Part II. Heavy Quarks and Leptons: 4. From the psi to charmed mesons: three years with the SLAC-LBL detector at SPEAR Gershon Goldhaber

5. The discovery of the tau lepton Martin Perl

6. The discovery of the upsilon, bottom quark and B meson Leon Lederman

7. The discovery of the CP violation James Cronin

8. Flavor mixing and CP violation Makoto Kobayashi

Part III. Toward Gauge Theories: 9. The path to renormalizability Martinus Veltman

10. Renormalization of gauge theories Gerard 't Hooft

11. Asymptotic freedom and emergence of QCD David Gross

12. Quark confinement Leonard Susskind

13. A view from the island Alexander Polyakov

14. On the early days of the renormalization group D. V. Shirkov

Part IV. Accelerators, Detectors, and Laboratories: 15. The rise of colliding beams Burton Richter

16. The CERN intersecting storage rings: the leap into the hadron collider era Kjell Johnsen

17. Development of large detectors for colliding beam experiments Roy Schwitters

18. Pure and hybrid detectors: mark I and the psi Peter Galison

19. Building fermilab: the experimental areas Robert R. Wilson

20. Panel session: science policy and the social structure of big laboratories Catherine Westfall

21. Some sociological consequences of high energy physicists' development of the standard model Mark Bodnarczuk

22. Comments on accelerators, detectors, and laboratories John Krige

Part V. Electroweak Unification: 23. The first gauge theory of weak interactions S. Bludman

24. The early history of high-energy neutrino physics M. Schwartz

25. Gargamelle and the discovery of neutral currents Donald Perkins

26. What a fourth quark can do John Iliopoulos

27. Weak-electromagnetic interference in polarized electron-deuteron scattering Charles Prescott

28. Panel session: spontaneous breaking of symmetry Laurie M. Brown

Comments Robert Brout, Tian Yu Cao, Peter Higgs, and Yoichiro Nambu

Part VI. Discovery of Quarks and Gluons: 29. Early baryon and meson spectroscopy culminating in the discovery of the omega minus and quarks N. Samios

30. Quark models and quark phenomenology Harry Lipkin

31. From the non-relativistic quark model to QCD and back Giacomo Morpurgo

32. Deep inelastic scattering and the discovery of quarks Jerome Friedman

33. Deep inelastic scattering: from current algebra to partons James Bjorken

34. Hadron jets and the discovery of the gluon Sau Lan Wu

Part VII. Overviews: 35. Quarks, color and QCD Murray Gell-Mann

36. The philosopher problem Paul Teller

37. Should we believe in quarks and QCD? Michael Redhead

38. A historical perspective on the rise of the standard model Silvan Schweber.