Introducing particle physics. ([2013])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Particle physics
• Further Information: Note: Tom Whyntie & Oliver Pugh ; edited by Duncan Heath.
• Authors: Whyntie, Tom, 1983-
• Editors: Heath, Duncan
• Other Names: Pugh, Oliver artist.
• Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; What are we made of?; Philosophy: mind and matter; Metaphysics; Empiricism; Experimental philosophy; Figuring out the code; The first atomist; The modern atomic theory; Problems with the theory; Some light entertainment; The conundrum of waves; The luminiferous aether; Cathode rays; A new form of light?; The Electron; Thomson's proof; X-rays and radioactivity; Enter Rutherford; Using alpha particles as tools; The nuclear model; A light distraction: the photon; Maxwell again; Inside the nucleus; The proton; The neutron; The final picture? The discovery of cosmic raysSomething in the air; An extraterrestrial source?; The cloud chamber; Tracking the cosmic rays; Quantum field theory; Dirac's amazing equation; Antimatter; Quantum electrodynamics; QED under threat; Mesons; Pions and muons; The dawn of the age of accelerators; The Cyclotron and Synchrocyclotron; The Synchrotron; Cosmotron, Bevatron and G-Stack; Strange times; The particle zoo; The neutrino; The weak force; Parity; The Standard Model; Quarks; Up, down, strange and charm; Charge-parity; Bottom and top quarks; The strong force and QCD; Gluons; Confinement Asymptotic freedomThe leptons; Completing the lepton family; Out of the zoo and into the pet shop; Electroweak unification; A new boson needed; Separated at birth; The two-beam collider; CERN's LEP collider: a crowning achievement; The missing piece; The problem of mass; The joys of symmetry; The Higgs mechanism; Wanted: a massive, spin-zero boson; The Higgs field; The US strikes back; The Large Hadron Collider; Tension at CERN; A new frontier; Two big challenges; Improvements in particle detectors; The arrival of computers; Information management: the internet and the Grid The great switch-onAnother challenge from the US; Unfinished Higgsness; Supersymmetry and dark matter; The graviton; Gravity, extra dimensions and (micro- ) black holes; The solar neutrino problem; The journey continues; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Index
• Publisher Details: London : Icon Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 539.72; Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Comic books, strips, etc; Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Popular works; Particules (Physique nucléaire) -- Bandes dessinées; Particules (Physique nucléaire) -- Ouvrages de vulgarisation; Particles (Nuclear physics); illustrated books; Comics (Graphic works); Graphic novels; Illustrated works; Nonfiction comics; Popular works; Illustrated works; Nonfiction comics; Graphic novels; Ouvrages illustrés; Bandes dessinées autres que de fiction
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781848317642; 1848317646
• Related ISBNs: 9781848315891; 1848315899
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.