The Experimental Foundations of Particle Physics

by Gerson Goldhaber, Robert N. Cahn, Gerson Eds Goldhaber

Book Overview

Our current understanding of elementary particles and their interactions emerged from break-through experiments. This book presents these experiments, beginning with the discoveries of the neutron and position, and following them through mesons, strange particles, antiparticles, and quarks and gluons. This second edition contains new chapters on the W and Z, the top quark, B-meson mixing and CP violation, and neutrino oscillations. This book provides...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521424259
• ISBN13: 9780521424257
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 10.0"