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1 online resource (248 pages) |
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Physics Through the 1990s -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- THE REVOLUTION IN PARTICLE PHYSICS -- WHAT WE WANT TO KNOW -- THE TOOLS OF ELEMENTARY-PARTICLE PHYSICS -- THE FUTURE OF ELEMENTARY-PARTICLE PHYSICS IN THE UNITED STATES -- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR UNIVERSITY-BASED RESEARCH GROUPS AND USE OF EXISTING FACILITIES IN THE UNITED STATES -- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR NEW ACCELERATOR FACILITIES IN THE UNITED STATES -- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ACCELERATOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT -- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THEORETICAL RESEARCH IN PARTICLE PHYSICS |
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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR NONACCELERATOR PHYSICS EXPERIMENTSRECOMMENDATIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN ELEMENTARY-PARTICLE PHYSICS -- CONCLUSION -- 1 Introduction -- ELEMENTARY-PARTICLE PHYSICS -- WHAT WE KNOW -- WHAT WE WANT TO KNOW -- THE TOOLS OF ELEMENTARY-PARTICLE PHYSICS -- THE FUTURE TOOLS OF ELEMENTARY-PARTICLE PHYSICS -- 2 What Is Elementary-Particle Physics? -- WHAT IS AN ELEMENTARY PARTICLE -- How Many Kinds of Elementary Particles Are There? -- The Size of Elementary Particles -- Elementary Particles and High Energy |
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THE KNOWN BASIC FORCES AND FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLESThe Four Basic Forces -- The Known Families of Elementary Particles -- The Force-Carrying Particles -- The Leptons -- The Quarks -- The Hadrons -- Particles and Antiparticles -- COLLISIONS AND DECAYS -- Collisions of Particles -- Collision Diagrams -- Collisions and Interactions -- Spontaneous Disintegration of Particles -- CONSERVATION LAWS AND SYMMETRY IDEAS -- What Are Conservation Laws? -- Symmetry and Invariance -- Symmetry Breaking -- EXPERIMENTS, ACCELERATIONS, AND PARTICLES DETECTORS |
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Experimental Methods in Elementary-Particle PhysicsExperiments at Fixed-Target Accelerators -- Fixed-Target Accelerators -- Targets -- Particle Detectors for Charged Particles -- Secondary Particle Beams -- Particle Colliders -- Experiments at Particle Colliders -- The Decays of Particles -- Experiments in Elementary-Particle Physics Without Accelerators -- 3 What We Have Learned in the Past Two Decades -- DEVELOPMENT OF THE QUARK MODEL OF HADRONS -- The Beginnings of the Quark Model -- The Discovery of the Charmed Quark -- Charmonium States |
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DISCOVERY OF THE THIRD GENERATION OF LEPTONS AND QUARKSThe Discovery of the Tau Lepton -- The Discovery of the Bottom Quark -- The Third Generation -- HOW QUARKS INTERACT -- Hadron Interactions -- Lepton-Proton Scattering Experiments -- Hadron Jets -- UNIFICATION OF THE WEAK AND ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS -- STRONG INTERACTION AMONG QUARKS -- UNIFIED THEORIES -- 4 Elementary-Particle Physics: What We Want To Know -- INTRODUCTION -- The Problem of Mass -- Where Do All These Mass Scales Originate? -- Composite Quarks and Leptons? |
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""Unification of the Fundamental Forces?"" |
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Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Congresses
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Nuclear physics.
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Nuclear Physics
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nuclear physics.
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Nuclear physics
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Particles (Nuclear physics)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780309534666 |
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0309534666 |
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