The Evidence for the Top Quark
Subtitle: Objectivity and Bias in Collaborative Experimentation
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 5, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780521827102
Subjects: Particle & high-energy physics; Philosophy of science; Quarks; Nuclear Physics; Science; Philosophy; Science/Mathematics; General; Philosophy / General; Molecular Physics; Flavor; Particles (Nuclear physics)
First sentence: In the standard model (see Figure 1.1) of the elementary particles and forces of nature that is endorsed by contemporary physics, the fundamental basis of matter is constituted by the quarks, which bear fractional electrical charges and respond to the strong force that binds together atomic nuclei, and the leptons, which are neutral or have integral electrical charges and are immune to the strong force.