Shifting standards : experiments in particle physics in the twentieth century /
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Pittsburgh :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Some measurements of the temperature variation in the electrical resistance of a sample of copper
- Do falling bodies move south?
- The isolation of an ion, a precision measurement of its charge, and the correction of Stokes's law
- Directed quanta of scattered X-rays
- A determination of e/m for an electron by a new deflection method
- An uncertain interlude
- Electron polarization
- Mean lifetime of V-particles and heavy mesons
- Detection of the free antineutrino
- Measurement of the Ke2+ branching ratio
- Determination of Kl3 form factors from measurements of decay correlations and muon polarizations
- Bad data : an interlude
- Measurement of the antineutron-proton cross section at low energy
- New measurements of properties of the [omega] hyperon
- The coherent scattering of neutrinos
- Search for neutral weakly interacting massive particles in the Fermilab Tevatron wideband neutrino beam
- Measurement of the B+ total cross section and B+ differential cross section d/dpT in pp collisions at ?s = 1.8 TeV
- B meson decays to charmless meson pairs containing [eta] or [eta]' mesons
- The case of the disappearing sigmas
- Conclusion.