The Mystery of the Missing Antimatter / / Yossi Nir, Helen R. Quinn.
In the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang lingers a question at the heart of our very existence: why does the universe contain matter but almost no antimatter? The laws of physics tell us that equal amounts of matter and antimatter were produced in the early universe-but then something o...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Science Essentials ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 12 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 1. PRELUDE:THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING ANTIMATTER
- 2. CONSTANT PHYSICS IN AN EVOLVING UNIVERSE
- 3. AS THE UNIVERSE EXPANDS
- 4. WHAT IS ANTIMATTER?
- 5. ENTER NEUTRINOS
- 6. MESONS
- 7. THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
- 8. THROUGH THE LOOKING ANTIGLASS
- 9. THE SURVIVAL OF MATTER
- 10. ENTER QUARKS
- 11. ENERGY RULES
- 12. SYMMETRY RULES
- 13. STANDARD MODEL GAUGE SYMMETRIES
- 14. A MISSING PIECE
- 15. IT STILL DOESN'T WORK!
- 16. TOOLS OF THE TRADE
- 17. SEARCHING FOR CLUES
- 18. SPECULATIONS
- 19. NEUTRINO SURPRISES
- 20. FOLLOWING THE NEW CLUES
- 21. FINALE
- APPENDIX: A TIMELINE OF PARTICLE PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY
- INDEX