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9780521089838

The Quantum Quark

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521089838

  • ISBN10:

    0521089832

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-11-06
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

The world you can feel and touch is built of atoms, the smallest identifiable chunks of matter. Yet the heart of each atom is itself a whole new world, a world populated by quarks: indivisible, vanishingly small, the ultimate building blocks of our universe. This inner world where quarks reign is subject to new and unfamiliar rules, the rules of the quantum world. Colossal particle accelerators enable physicists to bring this inner world into focus, and have helped them shape a theory respectful of quantum rules that explains how quarks feel one another's presence. The Quantum Quark is the story of that theory: quantum chromodynamics.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Symmetry
The quantum world
Towards QCD
The one number of QCD
The gregarious gluon
Quarks and hadrons
Quarks under the microscope
Much ado about nothing
Checkerboard QCD
A QCD chronology
Greek alphabet and SI prefixes
Glossary
Further reading
Index
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