Elementary-Particle Physics.
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National Academies Press,
1986
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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?
