50 Years of Quarks

by Harald Fritzsch

Book Overview

Today 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9814618101
• ISBN13: 9789814618106
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 516 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.7"