Learning About Particles — 50 Privileged Years

• Main Author: Steinberger, Jack (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Subjects: Physics.; Philology.; Linguistics.; Nuclear physics.; Atoms.; Physical measurements.; Measurement.; Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.; Language and Literature.; Physics, general.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.

Embedded in an autobiographic framework, this book retraces vividly and in some depth the golden years of particle physics as witnessed by one of the scientists who made seminal contributions to the understanding of what is now known as the Standard Model of particle physics. Well beyond a survey of...

Table of Contents:

• Origins and Education
• Institute for Advanced Study, 1948–1949, Theory
• Berkeley, 1949–1950, Accelerators
• Properties of Pi Mesons
• Strange Particles and Bubble Chambers
• Neutrinos I
• CP Violation
• Neutrinos, II
• Experiments with the LEP e+e? Collider.