1st Edition

Beyond the Nanoworld Quarks, Leptons, and Gauge Bosons

By H. G. Dosch Copyright 2008
292 Pages
by A K Peters/CRC Press

292 Pages
by A K Peters/CRC Press

292 Pages
by A K Peters/CRC Press

Beyond the world of atoms, at scales smaller than the smallest nuclei, a new world comes into view, populated by an array of colorful elementary particles: strange and charmed quarks, muons and neutrinos, gluons and photons, and many others, all interacting in beautifully intricate patterns. Beyond the Nanoworld tells the story of how this new realm was discovered. From the first discoveries of... Read more
1. The Heroic Time 2. The Great Leap Forward 3. Up by Their Own Bootstraps 4. Composite Elementary Particles 5. On the Path to the Standard Model 6. The Standard Model of Particle Physics 7. Storm Clouds or the Dawn of a New Physics? 8. Epilog

Biography

Dosch, H. G.