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1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Preface; A Schematic Model of Baryons and Mesons; References; Quarks; Concrete Quarks; 1. Introduction; 2. How it Started; 3. Caltech; 4. Something Unbelievable; 5. The Explanation; 6. The Question; 7. The Difficulties; 8. The Reaction; 9. Acceptance; 9.1. Bayes' theorem; 9.2. Different priors, different times; 10. Invention or Discovery; 11. Final Thoughts; 12. Epilogue; Acknowledgments; References; On the Way from Sakatons to Quarks; 1956. Moscow; 1957. Moscow; 1957. Padua -- Venice; 1957. Stanford and Berkeley; 1958. Geneva; 1959. Kiev Symmetry; 1960. Rochester; 1962. Geneva Again |
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1962. From 3 to 4 Sakatons1963. My First Book; 1964. Quarks; 1965. Moscow; 1967. 14th Conference on Physics at the University of Brussels; 1968. Moscow; 1980. Moscow; 1985. "Particle Physics: The Quest for the Substance of Substance"; Hadrons and quarks; Isotopic Spin. SU(2) Group; Strange particles; SU(3) symmetry; The charmed quark; The b quark and others; Flavors and generations; Color and gluons; Quantum chromodynamics (QCD); Asymptotic freedom and confinement; Chiral symmetry; QCD on the march; On the reliability of experimental data; Appendix. Four Pages from the Dubna Preprint11 |
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11. Transparency of the Vacuum12. Masses of the Leptons and Quarks; 13. Beyond the Standard Model; References; Quarks and QCD; References; The Discovery of Gluon; 1. Quarks are Not Enough; 2. The Theory of the Strong Interactions; 3. Where are the Gluons?; 4. The Three-Jet Idea; 5. Proof at Last; 6. After the Discovery; Acknowledgments; References; Discovery of the Gluon; 1. Particle Physics in 1977; 2. PETRA and TASSO; 3. Gluon Bremsstrahlung; 4. Three-Jet Analysis; 5. Discovery of the Gluon; 6. Confirmations and the Spin of the Gluon; 7. Recent Developments; 8. Summary; Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
"Today it is known that the atomic nuclei are composed of smaller constituents, the quarks. A quark is always bound with two other quarks, forming a baryon or with an antiquark, forming a meson. The quark model was first postulated in 1964 by Murray Gell-Mann -- who coined the name "quark" from James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake -- and by George Zweig, who then worked at CERN. In the present theory of strong interactions -- Quantum Chromodynamics proposed by H Fritzsch and Gell-Mann in 1972 -- the forces that bind the quarks together are due to the exchange of eight gluons. On the 50th anniversary of the quark model, this invaluable volume looks back at the developments and achievements in the elementary particle physics that eventuated from that beautiful model. Written by an international team of distinguished physicists, each of whom have made major developments in the field, the volume provides an essential overview of the present state to the academics and researchers.-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed April 15, 2015) |
| Subject |
Quarks.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Quantum Theory.
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Quarks
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Fritzsch, Harald, 1943- editor.
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Gell-Mann, Murray, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789814618113 |
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981461811X |
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