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Understanding the universe : from quarks to the cosmos /
The Big Bang, the birth of the universe, was a singular event. All of the matter of the universe was concentrated at a single point, with temperatures so high that even the familiar protons and neutrons of atoms did not yet exist, but rather were replaced by a swirling maelstrom of energy, matter an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore :
World Scientific,
2012.
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| Edición: | Revised edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword
- Preface to Revised Edition
- Preface (And so ad infinitum); dated October 24, 2003 [Preface to the First Edition]
- Acknowledgements
- 1. EARLY HISTORY
- First musings
- Better living through chemistry
- May the Force be with you
- 2. THE PATH TO KNOWLEDGE (HISTORY OF PARTICLE PHYSICS)
- Cathode rays
- X-rays
- Radioactivity
- The discovery of the electron
- The nature of the atom
- The nature of the nucleus
- Quantum mechanics: An intermission
- Beta radiation and the neutrino
- More forces
- Something to make your head spin
- Cosmic rays: Particles from the heavens
- The antimatter electron
- Who ordered that?
- Strange "V" particles
- Neutrinos get even more complicated.
- 3. QUARKS AND LEPTONS
- Quarks and mesons
- Quarks and baryons
- A colorful world
- First evidence for quarks
- Discovery of more quarks and leptons
- Discovery of the top quark
- Return of the leptons
- 4. FORCES: WHAT HOLDS IT ALL TOGETHER
- Gravity
- Electromagnetism
- The strong force
- The weak force
- Forces and Feynman Diagrams
- Feynman Diagrams and the strong force
- Jets: The subatomic shotgun
- Proton structure: The miniature lightning storm
- Feynman Diagrams and the weak force
- Discovery of the top quark.
- 5. HUNTING FOR THE HIGGS
- Mass, parity and infinities
- The Higgs solution
- Higgs by analogy I
- Higgs the way scientists think
- Higgs by analogy II
- Desperately seeking Higgs
- The current search story
- 6. ACCELERATORS AND DETECTORS: TOOLS OF THE TRADE
- A drive through Fermilab
- Not all accelerators are in cars
- Not all rings are for engagements
- The new kids on the Block
- Targets and beam types
- Enter antimatter
- Accelerators of the world
- Particle detectors: The world's biggest cameras
- Ionization and tracking
- Calorimeters: Measuring energy
- One detector: Many technologies
- Lifestyles of the rich and famous
- Water is for more than just drinking.
- 7. NEAR TERM MYSTERIES
- Mystery #1: Neutrinos from the Sun
- Oh where, oh where, have my neutrinos gone?
- Neutrinos from thin air
- Super-K finds the truth
- Why oscillations?
- Neutrino detectors, current status
- Mystery #2: Where's the antimatter?
- Sakharov's Three Conditions
- Charge, parity and all that
- The death of weak parity conservation
- Parity symmetry is dead! Long live CP!
- 8. EXOTIC PHYSICS (THE NEXT FRONTIER)
- Fiddling with the parameters
- If you knew SUSY
- Desperately seeking SUSY
- Large extra dimensions: Fact or fiction?
- Does Superman's cat play with superstrings?
- 9. RECREATING THE UNIVERSE 10,000,000 times a second
- The shape of the Universe
- The Dark Side of the Universe
- Where are the galaxies?
- The Big Whisper
- At three minutes
- Uniformity and inflation
- Back to the beginning
- 10. EPILOGUE: WHY DO WE DO IT?
- Appendix A: Greek symbols
- Appendix B: Scientific jargon
- Appendix C: Particle-naming rules
- Particle name
- Electric charge
- Form of matter
- Associated flavor
- Fundamental particles
- Non-fundamental particles (baryons and mesons)
- Appendix D: Essential relativity and quantum mechanics
- Appendix E: Higgs Boson production
- Further reading
- Glossary
- Index.