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Remnants of the fall : revelations of particle secrets

Title
Remnants of the fall : revelations of particle secrets / William B. Rolnick.
Author
Rolnick, William B.
Publication
New Jersey : World Scientific, c2003.

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Description
xxii, 287 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Subject
  • Particles (Nuclear physics)
  • Symmetry (Physics)
  • Standard model (Nuclear physics)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
About questions and answers -- The matter we know : properties and principles -- The relativity of space and time -- The quantum properties of nature, part one -- The quantum properties of nature, part two -- Quantum mechanical reality -- The particles of matter -- The basic interactions -- Spacetime symmetries -- "Internal" symmetries : isotopic spin -- Particle flavors -- A larger flavor symmetry : entrance to the land of quarks -- About gauge theories -- The strong interaction : quantum chromodynamics (QCD) -- The weak interaction : the foot-hills -- The electroweak interaction and the standard model -- Above and beyond -- The role of experiments and experimentalists -- The experimental connection -- Particle accelerators and detectors.
Call Number
JSF 05-94
ISBN
  • 9812380604
  • 9812381465 (pbk.)
OCLC
52868932
Author
Rolnick, William B.
Title
Remnants of the fall : revelations of particle secrets / William B. Rolnick.
Imprint
New Jersey : World Scientific, c2003.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JSF 05-94
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