Learning About Particles - 50 Privileged Years

Embedded in an autobiographic framework, this book retraces vividly and in some depth the golden years of particle physics as witnessed by one of the scientists who made seminal contributions to the understanding of what is now known as the Standard Model of particle physics. Well beyond a survey of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steinberger, Jack
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2005, 2005
Edition:1st ed. 2005
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Origins and Education
  • Institute for Advanced Study, 1948–1949, Theory
  • Berkeley, 1949–1950, Accelerators
  • Properties of Pi Mesons
  • Strange Particles and Bubble Chambers
  • Neutrinos I
  • CP Violation
  • Neutrinos, II
  • Experiments with the LEP e+e? Collider