Particle Physics: A Los Alamos Primer

Cooper, Necia Grant [Editor]; West, Geoffrey B. [Editor];

ISBN 10: 0521345421 / ISBN 13: 9780521345422

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1988

Beschreibung

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Published date: 1988]. Hardcover, xi, 199 pp; illustrations (some color); 28 cm. An updated version of Los Alamos Science, no.11 (Summer/Fall 1984). In very good condition/ NO dust jacket. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on front cover and spine; light scuffing and a few small surface marks to cloth; corners lightly bumped. Binding tight. Light sticker residue on front free end paper from where a book plate was removed. Otherwise pages clean and unmarked. A collection of articles by particle physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory presenting an overview of major theoretical and experimental developments in particle physics over the preceding two decades. Includes contributions from Geoffrey B. West, Stuart Raby, Richard C. Slansky, Gerald Guralnik, Gary H. Sanders, Henry A. Thiessen, Mahlon T. Wilson, L. M. Simmons, Jr., and others. Topics range from scaling, the Standard Model, QCD, unification theories, supersymmetry, CP violation, accelerator design, experimental tests of unification, high energy frontiers, and personal reflections from major figures in the field. Contents: Preface; Introduction; Scale and Dimension From Animals to Quarks; Particle Physics and the Standard Model; QCD on a Cray: The Masses of Elementary Particles; Lecture Notes From Simple Field Theories to the Standard Model; Toward a Unified Theory: An Essay on the Role of Supergravity in the Search for Unification; Supersymmetry at 100 GeV; The Family Problem; Experiments to Test Unification Schemes; The March Toward Higher Energies; LAMPF II and the High Intensity Frontier; The SSC An Engineering Challenge; Science Underground The Search for Rare Events; Quarks and Quirks Among Friends; Index.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 20251111007

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Particle Physics: A Los Alamos Primer
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1988
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0521345421
• ISBN-13: 9780521345422
• Einband: hardcover
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Missing
• Gewicht: 35 Unzen
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • General Non-Fiction

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Inhaltsangabe

This book explains the emergence of a profoundly new understanding of the fundamental forces of Nature.

Reseña del editor

This lively well-illustrated collection of articles written by a group of particle physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory presents to the expert and non-expert alike a comprehensive overview of the major theoretical and experimental advances of the past twenty years. It explains the emergence of a profoundly new understanding of the fundamental forces of Nature. With the unification of the weak and electromagnetic interaction, physicists now stand at the brink of a complete unification of all the forces, including gravity. This achievement brought with it a rich vocabulary of names and concepts: quarks, gluons and nonabelian gauge theories. The exposition of these ideas, done on a variety of technical levels is designed to interest a broad audience ranging from the professional theorist and experimentalist to the inquisitive student. Anyone with an interest in particle physics can enjoy this book.