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Prestigious Discoveries at CERN - 1973 Neutral Currents 1983 W & Z Bosons (Hardcover, 2003 ed.) Loot Price: R1,646
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Prestigious Discoveries at CERN - 1973 Neutral Currents 1983 W & Z Bosons (Hardcover, 2003 ed.): Roger Cashmore, Luciano...

Prestigious Discoveries at CERN - 1973 Neutral Currents 1983 W & Z Bosons (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)

Roger Cashmore, Luciano Maiani, Jean-Pierre Revol

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detectors, whiletheUA1collaborationwasthe prototype ofthenowwellaccepted very large international scienti?c collaborations. Towards the end of this meeting, we shall look forward to the future programme of CERN. We are able to do so with the con?dence engendered by our discoveries of long ago. LucianoMaiani (CERNDirectorGeneral) CERNpressrelease 1 Communique depresseduCERN 2 Welcome L. Maiani 5 ThemakingoftheStandardModel S. Weinberg 9 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 CERN scontributiontoacceleratorsandbeams G. Brianti 25 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 2 Magnetic horn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 3 PS Booster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 4 ISR, ?rst proton--proton collider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 5 SPS collider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 6 LEPandLHC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Thediscoveryofneutralcurrents D. Haidt 41 1 Prolog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 2 The double challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 3 Euphoria in March 1973. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 4 The proof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 5 Attack and ?nal victory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 6 Epilog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Thediscoveryofthe &, apersonalrecollection P. Darriulat 55 1 Preamble. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 2 An announced discovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 X Contents 3 The proton--antiproton choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 4 Physics in the limelight and physics in the shade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 5 The UA1/UA2 competition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 & physicsatLEP P. Zerwas 73 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 2 -Boson physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 2. 1 The electroweak basis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 2. 2 Top-quark prediction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 2. 3 Quantum chromodynamics QCD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 2. 4 Three families in the Standard Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 2. 5 Gauge coupling uni?cation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 3 -Boson physics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 4 Higgs mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 4. 1 Virtual Higgs mass estimate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 4. 2 Real Higgs mass bound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 5 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 PhysicsattheLHC J. Ellis 89 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 2 The quest for the Higgs boson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ."

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Imprint: Springer-Verlag
Country of origin: Germany
Release date: September 2004
First published: September 2004
Editors: Roger Cashmore • Luciano Maiani • Jean-Pierre Revol
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 190
Edition: 2003 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-3-540-20750-4
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Atomic & molecular physics
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LSN: 3-540-20750-3
Barcode: 9783540207504

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