Hidden Worlds : : Hunting for Quarks in Ordinary Matter / / Timothy Paul Smith.
No one has ever seen a quark. Yet physicists seem to know quite a lot about the properties and behavior of these ubiquitous elementary particles. Here a top researcher introduces us to a fascinating but invisible realm that is part of our everyday life. Timothy Smith tells us what we know about quar...
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Smith, Timothy Paul, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Hidden Worlds : Hunting for Quarks in Ordinary Matter / Timothy Paul Smith. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018] ©2002 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Hidden Worlds: The Search for Quarks in Ordinary Matter -- 2. The Rise and Fall (for the Right Reasons) and Rise Again of the Quark Hypothesis -- 3. The Players and the Stage -- 4. The Nature of the Evidence -- 5. Measuring a Rainbow -- 6. Particle Taxonomy and Quark Soup -- 7. The Shape of Things -- 8. Three Quarks Plus -- 9. Digging a Little Deeper -- 10. A New Age of Exploration within the Hidden World -- Glossary -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star No one has ever seen a quark. Yet physicists seem to know quite a lot about the properties and behavior of these ubiquitous elementary particles. Here a top researcher introduces us to a fascinating but invisible realm that is part of our everyday life. Timothy Smith tells us what we know about quarks--and how we know it. Though the quarks that make science headlines are typically laboratory creations generated under extreme conditions, most quarks occur naturally. They reside in the protons and neutrons that make up almost all of the universe's known matter, from human DNA to distant nebulae, from books and tables to neutron stars. Smith explains what these quarks are, how they act, and why physicists believe in them sight unseen. How do quarks arrange themselves? What other combinations can nature make? How do quarks hold nuclei together? What else is happening in their hidden worlds? It turns out that these questions can be answered using a few simple principles, such as the old standby: opposites attract. With these few principles, Smith shows how quarks dance around each other and explains what physicists mean when they refer to "up" and "down" quarks and talk about a quark's color, flavor, and spin. Smith also explains how we know what we know about these oddly aloof particles, which are eternally confined inside larger particles. He explains how quark experiments are mounted and how massive accelerators, targets, and detectors work together to collect the data that scientists use to infer what quarks are up to. A nonmathematical tour of the quark world, this book is written for students, educators, and all who enjoy scientific exploration--whether they seek a taste of subnuclear physics or just wonder about nature on the smallest of scales. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Quarks. SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691057736 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691187242?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691187242 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780691187242.jpg |
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