A tour of the subatomic zoo : a guide to particle physics /
A Tour of the Subatomic Zoo: A guide to particle physics is a brief and ambitious expedition into the remarkably simple ingredients of all the wonders of nature. With hardly a mathematical formula, Professor Cindy Schwarz clearly explains the language and much of the substance of elementary particle...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) :
Morgan & Claypool Publishers,
[2016]
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
| Series: | IOP concise physics.
IOP (Series). Release 3. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 5. Simplification of the zoo : quarks
- 5.1. The quark model
- 5.2. Antiparticles and spin considerations
- 5.3. Experimental evidence for quarks
- 6. The standard model
- 6.1. The strong and weak forces revisited
- 6.2. The standard model
- 7. Particle accelerators
- 7.1. Acceleration of charged particles
- 7.2. Linear accelerators
- 7.3. Linear colliders
- 7.4. Synchrotrons
- 7.5. Colliders
- 8. Particle detectors
- 8.1. Scintillation counters
- 8.2. Wire, drift, and bubble chambers
- 8.3. Lead-glass detector
- 8.4. Cerenkov counters and particle identity
- 9. Open questions.
- 4. More particles and conservation rules
- 4.1. Strange particles
- 4.2. Reaction rules
- 3. A glimpse at the particle zoo
- 3.1. Antimatter
- 3.2. New particles
- 3.3. Particle classifications
- 2. Forces and interactions
- 2.1. Fundamental forces
- 2.2. Interactions and Feynman diagrams
- Addendum for the third edition
- Introduction
- Preface
- 1. Matter in the early 20th century
- 1.1. Parts of the atom
- 1.2. Radiation
- 1.3. Some conservation laws
- 1.4. Neutrinos