The Experimental Foundations of Particle Physics Cahn Goldhaber Hardback 2e

Description: The Experimental Foundations of Particle Physics A unique presentation of our current understanding of particle physics for researchers, advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Robert N. Cahn (Author), Gerson Goldhaber (Author) 9780521521475, Cambridge University Press Hardback, published 23 July 2009 566 pages 25.5 x 18 x 3 cm, 1.24 kg From reviews of the first edition: 'I believe this text to represent a major achievement in collecting, analysing and distilling for the reader, material forming an intensely exciting chapter in modern science.' D. H. Perkins, Nature Our current understanding of elementary particles and their interactions emerged from break-through experiments. This book presents these experiments, beginning with the discoveries of the neutron and positron, and following them through mesons, strange particles, antiparticles, and quarks and gluons. This second edition contains new chapters on the W and Z bosons, the top quark, B-meson mixing and CP violation, and neutrino oscillations. This book provides an insight into particle physics for researchers, advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Throughout the book, the fundamental equations required to understand the experiments are derived clearly and simply. Each chapter is accompanied by reprinted articles and a collection of problems with a broad range of difficulty. 1. The atom completed and a new particle 2. The Muon and the Pion 3. Strangeness 4. Antibaryons 5. The resonances 6. Weak interactions 7. The Neutral Kaon System 8. The Structure of the Nucleon 9. The J/Ψ, the Γ, and charm 10. Quarks, Gluons, and Jets 11. The Fifth Quark 12. From Neutral Currents to Weak Vector Bosons 13. Testing the Standard Model 14. The top quark 15. Mixing and CP violation in heavy quark mesons 16. Neutrino masses and oscillations 17. Epilogue Index. Subject Areas: Particle & high-energy physics [PHP], Nuclear physics [PHN]

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