A Palette of Particles /

A Palette of Particles / / Jeremy Bernstein.

From molecules to stars, much of the cosmic canvas can be painted in brushstrokes of primary color: the protons, neutrons, and electrons we know so well. But for meticulous detail, we have to dip into exotic hues-leptons, mesons, hadrons, quarks. Bringing particle physics to life as few authors can,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013
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Bernstein, Jeremy,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (220 p.) :; 11 halftones, 11 line illustrations, 3 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Primary Colors
  • 1 The Neutron
  • 2 The Neutrino
  • 3 The Electron and the Photon
  • Part II: Secondary Colors
  • 4 The Pion and the Muon
  • 5 The Antiparticle
  • 6 Strange Particles
  • 7 The Quark
  • Part III: Pastels
  • 8 The Higgs Boson
  • 9 Neutrino Cosmology
  • 10 Squarks, Tachyons, and the Graviton
  • L'Envoi
  • Appendix 1: Accelerators and Detectors
  • Appendix 2: Grand Unification
  • Appendix 3: Neutrino Oscillations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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