New Edition: Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics
(Revised Edition)This book provides a comprehensive overview of
modern particle physics accessible to anyone with a true passion
for wanting to know how the universe works. We are introduced to
the known particles of the world we live in. An elegant explanation
of quantum mechanics and relativity paves the way for an
understanding of the laws that govern particle physics. These laws
are put into action in the world of accelerators, colliders and
detectors found at institutions such as CERN and Fermilab that are
in the forefront of technical innovation. Real world and theory
meet using Feynman diagrams to solve the problems of infinities and
deduce the need for the Higgs boson.Facts and Mysteries in
Elementary Particle Physics offers an incredible insight from an
eyewitness and participant in some of the greatest discoveries in
20th century science. From Einstein's theory of relativity to the
elusive Higgs particle, this book will fascinate and educate anyone
interested in the world of quarks, leptons and gauge theories.This
book also contains many thumbnail sketches of particle physics
personalities, including contemporaries as seen through the eyes of
the author. Illustrated with pictures, these candid sketches
present rare, perceptive views of the characters that populate the
field.The Chapter on Particle Theory, in a pre-publication, was
termed "superbly lucid" by David Miller in Nature (Vol. 396, 17
Dec. 1998, p. 642).
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