The Rise of the Standard Model: A History of Particle Physics from 1964 to 1979Lillian Hoddeson, Laurie Brown, Michael Riordan, Max Dresden Editors Laurie Brown, Max Dresden, Lillian Hoddeson and Michael Riordan have brought together a distinguished group of elementary particle physicists and historians of science to explore the recent history of particle physics. 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. Major contributors include Steven Weinberg, Murray Gell-Mann, Michael Redhead, Silvan Schweber, Leon Lederman and John Heilbron. 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. |
Contents
19641979 | 5 |
Changing Attitudes and the Standard Model | 36 |
Three Years with | 57 |
The Discovery of the Tau Lepton | 79 |
The Discovery of the Upsilon Bottom Quark and B Mesons | 101 |
The Discovery of CP Violation | 114 |
Flavor Mixing and CP Violation | 137 |
Renormalization of Gauge Theories | 179 |
Some Sociological Consequences of HighEnergy Physicists | 384 |
Comments on Accelerators Detectors and Laboratories | 394 |
The Early History of HighEnergy Neutrino Physics | 411 |
Gargamelle and the Discovery of Neutral Currents | 428 |
What a Fourth Quark Can | 447 |
Spontaneous Breaking of Symmetry | 478 |
Early Baryon and Meson Spectroscopy Culminating in | 525 |
Quark Models and Quark Phenomenology | 542 |
Asymptotic Freedom and the Emergence of | 199 |
Quark Confinement | 233 |
On the Early Days of the Renormalization Group | 250 |
The Leap into | 285 |
Development of Large Detectors for CollidingBeam | 299 |
A Users Paradise | 339 |
Science Policy and the Social Structure | 364 |
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Converging Realities: Toward a Common Philosophy of Physics and Mathematics Roland Omnès Limited preview - 2005 |