Hidden Worlds : : Hunting for Quarks in Ordinary Matter /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Smith, Timothy Paul,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©2002
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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