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The Mystery of the Missing Antimatter /

"Helen Quinn and Yossi Nir explain both the history of antimatter and recent advances in particle physics and cosmology. And they discuss the enormous, high-precision experiments that particle physicists are undertaking to test the laws of physics at their most fundamental levels - and how thei...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Quinn, Helen R.
Otros Autores: Nir, Yossi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Constant physics in an evolving universe
  • As the universe expands
  • What is antimatter?
  • Enter neutrinos
  • Mesons
  • Through the looking glass
  • Through the looking antiglass
  • The survival of matter
  • Enter quarks
  • Energy rules
  • Symmetry rules
  • Standard model gauge symmetries
  • A missing piece
  • It still doesn't work!
  • Tools of the trade
  • Searching for clues
  • Speculations
  • Neutrino surprises
  • Following the new clue.