Particle Physics
A Los Alamos Primer

This book explains the emergence of a profoundly new understanding of the fundamental forces of Nature.

Necia Grant Cooper (Edited by), Geoffrey B. West (Edited by)

9780521347808, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 29 April 1988

212 pages
27.9 x 21 x 1.1 cm, 0.49 kg

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.

Preface
Introduction
Part I. Theoretical Framework: 1. Scale and dimension - From animals to quarks Geoffrey B. West
2. Particle physics and the standard model Stuart Raby, Richard C. Slansky and Geoffrey B. West
QCD on a Cray: the masses of elementary particles Gerald Guralnik, Tony Warnock and Charles Zemach
Lecture Notes - From simple field theories to the standard model
3. Toward a unified theory: an essay on the role of supergravity in the search for unification Richard C. Slansky
4. Supersymmetry at 100 GeV Stuart Raby
5. The family problem T. Goldman and Michael Martin Nieto
Part II. Experimental Developments: 6. Experiments to test unification schemes Gary H. Sanders
7. The march toward higher energies S. Peter Rosen
LAMPF II and the High-Intensity Frontier Henry A. Thiessen
The SSC - An engineering challenge Mahlon T. Wilson
8. Science underground - the search for rare events L. M. Simmons, Jr
Part III. Personal Perspectives: 9. Quarks and quirks among friends Peter A. Carruthers, Stuart Raby, Richard C. Slansky, Geoffrey B. West and George Zweig
Index.

Subject Areas: Nuclear physics [PHN]