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Title

The rise of the standard model : particle physics in the 1960s and 1970s / edited by Lillian Hoddeson [and others].

Publication

New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hoddeson, Lillian.

Description

xxx, 714 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• Based on a conference held at Stanford University, this is the third volume of a series recounting the history of particle physics and offers the most up-to-date account of the rise of the Standard Model, which explains the microstructure of the world in terms of quarks and leptons and their interactions.
• The wide-ranging articles explore the detailed scientific experiments, the institutional settings in which they took place, and the ways in which the many details of the puzzle fit together to account for the Standard Model.

Subjects

• Standard model (Nuclear physics) > History
• Particles (Nuclear physics) > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. The Rise of the Standard Model: 1964-1979 / Laurie M. Brown, Michael Riordan and Max Dresden [et al.] -- 2. Changing Attitudes and the Standard Model / Steven Weinberg -- 3. Two Previous Standard Models / J. L. Heilbron -- 4. From the Psi to Charmed Mesons: Three Years with the SLAC-LBL Detector at SPEAR / Gerson Goldhaber -- 5. The Discovery of the Tau Lepton / Martin Perl -- 6. The Discovery of the Upsilon, Bottom Quark, and B Mesons / Leon M. Lederman -- 7. The Discovery of CP Violation / James Cronin -- 8. Flavor Mixing and CP Violation / Makoto Kobayashi -- 9. The Path to Renormalizability / Martinus Veltman -- 10. Renormalization of Gauge Theories / Gerard 't Hooft -- 11. Asymptotic Freedom and the Emergence of QCD / David Gross -- 12. Quark Confinement / Leonard Susskind -- 13. A View from the Island / Alexander Polyakov -- 14. On the Early Days of the Renormalization Group / Dmitrij V. Shirkov -- 15. The Rise of Colliding Beams / Burton Richter --
• 16. The CERN Intersecting Storage Rings: The Leap into the Hadron Collider Era / Kjell Johnsen -- 17. Development of Large Detectors for Colliding-Beam Experiments / Roy Schwitters -- 18. Pure and Hybrid Detectors: Mark I and the Psi / Peter Galison -- 19. Building Fermilab: A User's Paradise / Robert R. Wilson and Adrienne Kolb -- 20. Panel Session: Science Policy and the Social Structure of Big Laboratories / Catherine Westfall -- 21. Some Sociological Consequences of High-Energy Physicists' Development of the Standard Model / Mark Bodnarczuk -- 22. Comments on Accelerators, Detectors, and Laboratories / John Krige -- 23. The First Gauge Theory of the Weak Interactions / Sidney Bludman -- 24. The Early History of High-Energy Neutrino Physics / Melvin Schwartz -- 25. Gargamelle and the Discovery of Neutral Currents / Donald Perkins -- 26. What a Fourth Quark Can Do / John Iliopoulos --
• 27. Weak-Electromagnetic Interference in Polarized Electron-Deuteron Scattering / Charles Prescott -- 28. Panel Session: Spontaneous Breaking of Symmetry / Laurie M. Brown, Robert Brout and Tian Yu Cao [et al.] -- 29. Early Baryon and Meson Spectroscopy Culminating in the Discovery of the Omega-Minus and Charmed Baryons / Nicholas Samios -- 30. Quark Models and Quark Phenomenology / Harry Lipkin -- 31. From the Nonrelativistic Quark Model to QCD and Back / Giacomo Morpurgo -- 32. Deep-Inelastic Scattering and the Discovery of Quarks / Jerome Friedman -- 33. Deep-Inelastic Scattering: From Current Algebra to Partons / James Bjorken -- 34. Hadron Jets and the Discovery of the Gluon / Sau Lan Wu -- 35. Quarks, Color, and QCD / Murray Gell-Mann -- 36. The Philosopher Problem / Paul Teller -- 37. Should We Believe in Quarks and QCD? / Michael Redhead -- 38. A Historical Perspective on the Rise of the Standard Model / Silvan Schweber.

ISBN

• 0521570824 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0521578167 (pbk. : alk paper)

LCCN

96005397

OCLC

• 34284494
• ocm34284494

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries