Facts and mysteries in elementary particle physics /
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River Edge, NJ :
World Scientific Pub.,
[2003]
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminaries. Atoms, nuclei and particles
- Photons
- Antiparticles
- Mass and energy
- Events
- Electron-volts and other units
- Particle names and the Greek alphabet
- Scientific notation
- Standard model. Conservation of energy and charge
- Quantum numbers
- Color
- Electron-neutrino, electron number and crossing
- First family
- Families and forces
- Spin 1/2 particles
- Spin 1 and 2 particles
- Forces and interactions
- Classification of interactions
- Electromagnetic, weak, strong, Higgs and gravitational interactions
- Representing interactions
- Origin of quantum numbers
- Quantum mechanics. Mixing. Two-slit experiment
- Amplitude and probability
- Cabibbo and CKM mixing
- Neutrino mixing
- Particle mixing
- Energy, momentum and mass-shell. Conservation laws
- Relativity
- Relativistic invariance
- Relation E [equals] mc [squared]
- Detection. Photoelectric effect
- Bubble chambers
- Spark chambers
- Proportional wire chambers
- Accelerators and storage rings. Energy bubbles
- Accelerators
- Secondary beams
- Machine builders
- CERN neutrino experiment. Experimental set-up
- Neutrino physics
- First neutrino experiments
- Vector bosons
- Missed opportunities
- Particle zoo. Bound states
- Structure of quark bound states
- Spin of a bound state
- Mesons
- Baryons
- Exotics
- Discovering quarks
- Triplets versus doublets and lepton-quark symmetry
- Particle theory. Feynman rules - Infinites
- Perturbation theory
- Renormalizability
- Weak interactions
- Compton scattering
- Neutral vector bosons
- Charmed quarks
- Higgs particle
- General Higgs couplings
- Speculations
- [Rho]-parameter
- Finding the Higgs. Quantum chromodynamics. Confinement
- Asymptotic freedom
- Scaling.