The Experimental Foundations of Particle Physics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521521475)

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 positron, and following them through mesons, strange particles, antiparticles, and quarks and gluons. This second edition contains new chapters on the W and Z bosons, the top quark, B-meson mixing and CP violation, and neutrino oscillations. This book provides an insight into particle physics for researchers, advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Throughout the book, the fundamental equations required to understand the experiments are derived clearly and simply. Each chapter is accompanied by reprinted articles and a collection of problems with a broad range of difficulty.

Author: Robert N. Cahn, Gerson Goldhaber
ISBN-10: 0521521475
ISBN-13: 9780521521475
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/23/2009
Pages: 566
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.75lbs
Size: 9.80h x 6.90w x 1.10d