Spectroscopy of Light and Heavy Quarks

• Author(s): Ugo Gastaldi, Robert Klapisch, F.E. Close

• Categories: Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2012-12-06
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• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

The second course of the International School on Physics with Low Energy Antiprotons was held in Erice, Sicily at the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture, from May 20 to May 31, 1987. The School is dedicated to physics accessible to experiments using low energy antiprotons, especially in view of operation of the LEAR facility at CERN with the upgraded antiproton source AAC (Antiproton Accumulator AA and Antiproton Collector ACOL). The first course in 1986 covered topics related to fundamental symmetries. This book contains the proceedings of the second course which focused on spectroscopy of light and heavy quarks. These proceedings contain both the tutorial lectures and contri but...

Vertex Detectors

• Author(s): Francesco Villa

• Categories: Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2013-06-29
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• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

It has been widely recognized that the "new physics" results from a high energy collider are related to the detector capabilities, and that future detec tors must solve the problems presented by the new environment. Vertex detectors, in particular, will have to sustain enormous rates, have a great resistance to radiation damage, while retaining good spatial accuracy. Promising technologies are emerging, and gaseous detectors are improving: this workshop was intended as a point of reference towards future detectors, with particular emphasis on experimental results achieved so far. We wish to thank the Ettore Majorana Center for the splendid hospitality in Erice; and the secretaries of the con...

The Hunting of the Quark: A True Story of Modern Physics

• Author(s): Michael Riordan

• Categories: Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2019-07-31
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• Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press

This is the absorbing account of one of the twentieth century’s most revolutionary discoveries — our first encounter with an essential mystery of the universe. Told by an active participant in this discovery, it is the saga of the search for quarks, the elementary particles lurking within the protons and neutrons of atomic nuclei, which constitute the fundamental basis of matter. Michael Riordan, physicist and author, was present at the key moments in this story. He brings to life the personalities, triumphs and failures of this true-life scientific detective story, vividly portraying the soaring ambitions and clashing egos of modern physicists at work, vying for the coveted Nobel Prize....

Nuclear Physics

• Categories: Nuclear physics

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1997
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Rise of the Standard Model

• Author(s): Lillian Hoddeson, Laurie Brown, Michael Riordan, Max Dresden

• Categories: Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1997-11-13
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• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Editors Laurie Brown, Max Dresden, Lillian Hoddeson and Michael Riordan have brought together a distinguished group of elementary particle physicists and historians of science to explore the recent history of particle physics. Based on a conference held at Stanford University, this is the third volume of a series recounting the history of particle physics and offers the most up-to-date account of the rise of the Standard Model, which explains the microstructure of the world in terms of quarks and leptons and their interactions. Major contributors include Steven Weinberg, Murray Gell-Mann, Michael Redhead, Silvan Schweber, Leon Lederman and John Heilbron. The wide-ranging articles explore the detailed scientific experiments, the institutional settings in which they took place, and the ways in which the many details of the puzzle fit together to account for the Standard Model.