1st Edition

Weak Neutral Currents The Discovery Of The Electro-weak Force

By David Cline Copyright 2004
    444 Pages
    by CRC Press

    444 Pages
    by CRC Press

    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.

    1. The Weak Interaction Uncovered (H. Becquerel to W. Pauli): In the Beginning (1896 – 1933) 2. Forty Years of Weak Interactions (Charged Currents): Fermi to Fermilab (1933 – 1973) 3. The Search for Other Forms of the Weak Interaction: Changing Flavors (1963 – 1970) 4. The Electroweak Interaction Picture Emerges: Everyone Missed It (1962 – 1973) 5. The Discovery of Weak Neutral Currents: Nothing In – Nothing Out (1973 – 1974) 6. Other Weak-Neutral Current Processes, Parity Violation in Weak Neutral Currents, and sin2θw: A Force in the Mirror (1975 – 1978) 7. On to the W and Z Particles: The Electroweak Force Rises (1976 – 1983) 8. High Precision Studies of the Electroweak Force: From the Top Down (1983 – 1995) 9. Back to the Future with the Higgs Boson: The God Particle Again (1995 – 2010)

    Biography

    Cline, David