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Title

Building blocks of matter : a supplement to the Macmillan encyclopedia of physics / John S. Rigden, editor in chief.

Publication

New York : Macmillan Reference ; Thomson/Gale, c2003.

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Additional Authors

Rigden, John S.

Description

xxxi, 530 p. : ill.; 29 cm.

Summary

Presents alphabetized, cross-referenced, signed articles on 153 topics and figures in the history of elementary particle physics, each including a further reading list.

Uniform Title

Macmillan encyclopedia of physics.

Alternative Title

Macmillan encyclopedia of physics - Supplement

Subject

Particles (Nuclear physics)

Genre/Form

• Reference works
• Ouvrages de référence.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• A: Accelerator; Accelerators, Colliding beams: electron-positron; Accelerators, Colliding beams: electron-proton; Accelerators, Colliding beams: hadron; Accelerators, early; Accelerators, Fixed-target: electron; Accelerators, Fixed-target: proton; Anderson, Carl D.; Annihilation and creation; Antimatter; Antiproton, discovery of; Astrophysics; Asymptotic freedom; Atom; Axion. / B: 'B' factory; Basic interactions and fundamental forces; Beam transport; Beijing Accelerator Laboratory; Benefits of particle physics to society; Big bang; Big bang nucleosynthesis; Boson, Gauge; Boson, Higgs; Broken symmetry; Brookhaven National Laboratory; Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics.^
• / C: Case study: Graviational wave detection: LIGO; Case study: LHC collider detectors, ATLAS and CMS; Case study: long baseline neutrino detectors, K2K, MINOS, and OPERA; Case study: super-kamiokande and the discovery of neutrino oscillations; CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics); Chadwick, James; Charmonium; CKM matrrix; Computing; Conservation laws; Cooling, Particle; Cornell Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics; Cosmic microwave background radiation; Cosmic rays; Cosmic strings, domain walls; Cosmological constant and dark energy; Cosmology; CP symmetry violation; Culture and particle physics; Cyclotron. / D: Dark matter; DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Laboratory); Detectors; Detectors and subsystems; Detectors, Astrophysical; Detectors, Collider; Detectors, Fixed-target; Detectors, Particle; Devices, Accelerating; Dirac, Paul.^
• / E: Eightfold way; Einstein, Albert; Electron, Discovery of; Electroweak phase transition; Electroweak symmetry breaking; Energy; Energy, Center-of-Mass; Energy, Rest; Experiment: discovery of the tau neutrino; Experiment: discovery of the top quark; Experiment: g-2 measurement of the muon; Experiment: search for the Higgs boson; Extraction systems. / F: Family; Fermi, Enrico; Fermilab; Feynman diagrams; Feynman, Richard; Flavor symmetry; Funding of particle physics. / G: Gauge theory; Grand Unification. / H: Hadron, Heavy; Higgs Phenomeon; Hubble Constant. / I: Inflation; Influence on science; Injector system; International nature of particle physics. / J: (J Particle); Japanese High-Energy Accelerator Research Organization, KEK; Jets and fragmentation. / K: Kendall, Henry. / L: Lattice gauge theory; Lawrence, Ernest Orlando; Lepton. / M: Metaphysics; Momentum; Muon, Discovery of.^
• / N: Neutrino; Neutrino oscillations; Neutrino, Discovery of; Neutrino, Solar; Neutron, Discovery of; Noether, Emmy. / O: Outlook. / P: Parity, Nonconservation of; Particle; Particle identification; Particle physics, elementary; Pauli, Wolfgang; Phase transitions; Philosophy and particle physics; Planck scale; Positron, discovery of. / Q: Quantum chromodynamics; Quantum electrodynamics; Quantum field theory; Quantum mechanics; Quantum statistics; Quantum tunneling; Quark-gluon plasma; Quarks; Quarks, discovery of. / R: Radiation, Cherenkov; Radiation, synchrotron; Radioactivity; Radioactivity, discovery of; Reines, Frederick; Relativity; Renormalization; Resonances; Rutherford, Ernest. / S: Salam, Abdus; Scattering; Schwinger, Julian; SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center); SSC; Standard model; String theory; SU (3); Supernovae; Supersymmetry; Symmetry principles. / T: Technicolor; Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility; Thomson, Joseph John; Tomonaga, Sin-itiro.^
• / U: Unified theories; Universe. / V: Virtual processes. / W,X: Wigner, Eugene; Wilson, Robert R.; Wu, Chien-Shiung. / Y: Yukawa, Hideki. / Z: Z factory.

ISBN

0028657039 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002013396

OCLC

50478415

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library