Remnants of the fall : revelations of particle secrets / / William B. Rolnick.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Rolnick, William B.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xxii, 287 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

• About questions and answers
• The matter we know : properties and principles
• The relativity of space and time
• The quantum properties of nature, part one
• The quantum properties of nature, part two
• Quantum mechanical reality
• The particles of matter
• The basic interactions
• Spacetime symmetries
• "Internal" symmetries : isotopic spin
• Particle flavors
• A larger flavor symmetry : entrance to the land of quarks
• About gauge theories
• The strong interaction : quantum chromodynamics (QCD)
• The weak interaction : the foot-hills
• The electroweak interaction and the standard model
• Above and beyond
• The role of experiments and experimentalists
• The experimental connection
• Particle accelerators and detectors.