Particle Physics: A Los Alamos Primer

Necia Grant Cooper (Curatore)

Geoffrey B. West (Curatore)

Cambridge University Press, 1988

This lively well-illustrated collection of articles written by a group of particle physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory presents to the expert and non-expert alike a comprehensive overview of the major theoretical and experimental advances of the past twenty years. It explains the emergence of a profoundly new understanding of the fundamental forces of Nature. With the unification of the weak and electromagnetic interaction, physicists now stand at the brink of a complete unification of all the forces, including gravity. This achievement brought with it a rich vocabulary of names and concepts: quarks, gluons and nonabelian gauge theories. The exposition of these ideas, done on a variety of technical levels is designed to interest a broad audience ranging from the professional theorist and experimentalist to the inquisitive student. Anyone with an interest in particle physics can enjoy this book.

• Curatore: Necia Grant Cooper, Geoffrey B. West
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Anno: 1988
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 212 p.
• Dimensioni: 279 x 210 mm
• Peso: 490 gr.
• EAN: 9780521347808

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