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50 Years Of Quarks (Hardcover)
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50 Years Of Quarks (Hardcover)
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'Harald Fritzsch and Murray Gell-Mann, the two fathers of quantum
chromodynamics, look back at the events that led to the discovery,
and eventually acceptance, of quarks as constituent particles ...
it is always worthwhile to reminisce about those times when
theoretical physicists were truly eclectic, these stories are the
testimony of a very active era, in which theoretical and
experimental discoveries rapidly chased one another ... Of central
importance now is the understanding of the composition of our
universe, the dark matter and dark energy, the hierarchy of masses
and forces, and a consistent quantum framework of unification of
all forces of nature, including gravity. The closing contributions
of the book put this venture in the context of today's high-energy
physics programme, and make a connection to the most popular ideas
in high-energy physics today, including supersymmetry, unification
and string theory.'CERN CourierToday it is known that the atomic
nuclei are composed of smaller constituents, the quarks. A quark is
always bound with two other quarks, forming a baryon or with an
antiquark, forming a meson. The quark model was first postulated in
1964 by Murray Gell-Mann - who coined the name "quark" from James
Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake - and by George Zweig, who then worked
at CERN. In the present theory of strong interactions - Quantum
Chromodynamics proposed by H Fritzsch and Gell-Mann in 1972 - the
forces that bind the quarks together are due to the exchange of
eight gluons.On the 50th anniversary of the quark model, this
invaluable volume looks back at the developments and achievements
in the elementary particle physics that eventuated from that
beautiful model. Written by an international team of distinguished
physicists, each of whom have made major developments in the field,
the volume provides an essential overview of the present state to
the academics and researchers.
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