The Experimental Foundations of Particle Physics
Contributors: Goldhaber, Gerson
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 567
ISBN-13: 9780511595516
Subjects: Particles (Nuclear physics)
Description: A unique presentation of our current understanding of particle physics for researchers, advanced undergraduate and graduate students.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; 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/psi thetau, 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.