| Description |
1 online resource (444 pages) |
| Series |
Frontiers in physics ; 97 |
|
Frontiers in physics ; 97.
|
| Contents |
880-01 Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Series Page; Editor's Foreword; PREFACE; CONTENTS; Nomenclature; Acknowledgement and Permissions; CHAPTER 1 The Weak Interaction Uncovered (H. Becquerel to W. Pauli) In the Beginning (1896 -1933); 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. The Early Observations of Weak Interactions; 1.3. Brief History of the Concept of Weak Neutral Current; 1.4. The Standard Model, the Intermediate Vector Boson, and the Electroweak Force; References; CHAPTER 2 Forty Years of Weak Interactions (Charged Currents) Fermi to Fermilab (1933 -1973) |
|
880-01/(S (E) Observation of High Energy Neutrino Reactions and the Existence of Two Kinds of NeutrinosCHAPTER 3 The Search for Other Forms of the Weak Interaction Changing Flavors (1963 -1970); 3 .1. Introduction; 3.2. The Early Search for Weak Neutral Currents: The Search for Flavor-Changing Neutral Current during 1963-1970; 3.3. The Role of the Search for Flavor-Changing Neutral Current in the Rise of the Standard Model; References; Articles; (A) Experimental Search for Weak Neutral Currents; (B) Search for Neutral Leptonic Currents in K+ Decay; (C) Limit on the K+ → π+ + v + v̄ Decay Rate |
|
CHAPTER 4 The Electroweak Interaction Picture Emerges Everyone Missed It (1962 -1973)4.1. Observation of Point-Like Scattering from Nucleons Using High-Energy Neutrino Beams; 4.2. The Development of the Electroweak Interaction Theory (from 1968-1973); 4.3. Reconciling the Experimental Absence of FCNC and the Predicted Existence of WNCs- The GIM Mechanism; References; Articles; (A) Early Observation of Neutrino and Antineutrino Events at High Energies; (B) Measurement of Neutrino and Antineutrino Total Cross Sections at High Energy |
|
(C) The Role of Gauge Theory, Symmetry Breaking, and Electroweak Unification in the Discovery of Weak Neutral CurrentsCHAPTER 5 The Discovery of Weak Neutral Currents Nothing In -- Nothing Out (1973 -1974); 5.1. The Early Limits on the Weak-Neutral-Current Amplitudes; 5.2. The Importance of the Early Search for FCNCs; 5.3. The Discovery of Weak Neutral Currents; 5.4. A Brief Discussion of the Parameters that Describe WNCs; References; Articles; (A) Search for Elastic Muon-Neutrino Electron Scattering |
| Summary |
This book attempts to trace the key experimental developments that led to the discovery of weak neutral currents in 1973 and the W, Z bosons in 1983, all of the results of which culminated in the identification of the unified-electroweak force |
| Notes |
(B) Observation of Neutrino-Like Interactions Without Muon or Electron in the Gargamelle Neutrino Experiment |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
Electroweak interactions.
|
|
Weak interactions (Nuclear physics)
|
|
SCIENCE -- Physics.
|
|
Electroweak interactions
|
|
Weak interactions (Nuclear physics)
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Cline, D. (David), 1933-
|
| ISBN |
9781000002140 |
|
1000002144 |
|
9780429267406 |
|
0429267401 |
|
9781000015508 |
|
1000015505 |
|
9781000008982 |
|
1000008983 |
|
