Learning About Particles - 50 Privileged Years (eBook)

Jack Steinberger (Autor)

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2005 | 2005
X, 181 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-26838-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Vividly and in some depth retraces the golden years of particle physics as witnessed by one of the scientists who made seminal contributions to the understanding of what is now known as the Standard Model of particle physics.

It will provide the interested reader with a first-hand account and deeper understanding of the multilayered and sinous development that finally led to the present architecture of this theory.

Combines particle physics with insightful stories about fellow physicists of some note and the political turmoil of his times.

Inhalt

Prelude 5
Contents 8
1 Origins and Education 10
1.1 Franconian Beginnings 10
1.2 The New World 14
1.3 Higher Education and War 20
1.4 Graduate School and Fermi 24
2 Institute for Advanced Study, 1948–1949, Theory 34
3 Berkeley, 1949–1950, Accelerators 39
4 Properties of Pi Mesons 49
5 Strange Particles and Bubble Chambers 67
6 Neutrinos I 91
7 CP Violation 103
8 Neutrinos, II 129
8.1 Quarks and Gluons 129
8.2 CDHS 131
8.3 Nucleon Structure 134
8.4 Quantitative Confirmation of Scaling Violations” Predicted by QCD Theory 137
8.5 Beam Dump and Tau Neutrino 139
8.6 Neutrino Masses, Neutrino Mixing, Neutrino Oscillations 140
9 Experiments with the LEP e+ e- Collider 150
A Postlude 169
References 183

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.8.2005
• Zusatzinfo: X, 181 p.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Experiment • Jack Steinberger • literary diction • Meson • Neutrino • neutrino beams • Particle physics • standard model
• ISBN-10: 3-540-26838-3 / 3540268383
• ISBN-13: 978-3-540-26838-3 / 9783540268383