Shifting standards
Subtitle: experiments in particle physics in the twentieth century
By: Allan Franklin
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780822944300
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Particles (Nuclear physics); Experiments
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Some measurements of the temperature variation in the electrical resistance of a sample of copper; title: Do falling bodies move south?; title: The isolation of an ion, a precision measurement of its charge, and the correction of Stokes's law; title: Directed quanta of scattered X-rays; title: A determination of e/m for an electron by a new deflection method; title: An uncertain interlude; title: Electron polarization; title: Mean lifetime of V-particles and heavy mesons; title: Detection of the free antineutrino; title: Measurement of the Ke2+ branching ratio; title: Determination of Kl3 form factors from measurements of decay correlations and muon polarizations; title: Bad data : an interlude; title: Measurement of the antineutron-proton cross section at low energy; title: New measurements of properties of the [omega] hyperon; title: The coherent scattering of neutrinos; title: Search for neutral weakly interacting massive particles in the Fermilab Tevatron wideband neutrino beam; title: Measurement of the B+ total cross section and B+ differential cross section d/dpT in pp collisions at ?s = 1.8 TeV; title: B meson decays to charmless meson pairs containing [eta] or [eta]' mesons; title: The case of the disappearing sigmas; title: Conclusion.