Exploring Fundamental Particles (Paperback)

GENESIS OF THE STANDARD MODELThe Foundation of Modern Physics: The Legacy of NewtonSimple Quantitative Laws Fundamental InteractionsFields Cosmological Principles Was Newton Wrong? The Relation of New Theories to Old The Role of Probability Waves That Are Particles; Particles That Are WavesParticles versus Waves What Is Light? Light Is a Wave The Birth of Special Relativity What Is Light? Light Is a Particle De Broglie and Schrodinger: The Electron as a Wave Particles That SpinAngular Momentum and Spin Helicity The Dirac Electron Polarization and the Photon Spin Understanding Quantum Electrodynamics: Feynman to the RescueQuantum Field Theory and Feynman Diagrams Gregarious Particles and Lonesome Particles: Spin and Statistics The Birth of Particle Physics: Pauli’s Neutrino, Fermi’s Weak Interaction, and Yukawa’s PionElectron, Proton, and Neutron Beta Decay and Pauli’s Neutrino Fermi’s Weak Interaction Nuclear Forces and Yukawa’s PionThe Muon: Who Ordered That? The Muon Neutrino: A New Kind of Nothing Strange Particles Learning to Live with Gell-Mann’s QuarksOrigin of the Quark Theory A Weekend in November: The Discovery of Charm Another Version of the RutherfordScattering Experiment Quantum Chromodynamics Jets Beautiful Symmetries Found and LostDiscrete and Continuous Symmetries Mirror Symmetry: P for Parity Madame Wu’s Amazing Discovery C for Charge Conjugation CP Symmetry T for Time Reversal Emergence of the Standard ModelWeinberg: A Model of Leptons The Experimental Triumph of the Standard Model Flavor PhysicsStandard Model with Two Families Standard Model with Three Families The Cabibbo?Kobayashi?Maskawa Matrix Yukawa Couplings, Masses, and Mixing Our Current View of Nature’s Building Blocks: (What We Have Learned So Far)The Four Interactions of Nature The Fundamental Building Blocks of Matter Interactions Are Mediated by Particles The Standard Model and Large Laboratories CP VIOLATION: THE ASYMMETRY BETWEEN MATTER AND ANTIMATTER CP Violation in Kaon Decays The Cabibbo?Kobayashi?Maskawa Matrix: CP Violation in the Standard Model CP Violation with B MesonsCP Violation at the B Factories CP Violation in the Bs System Checking the Standard Model: The Rho-Eta Plane CP Violation: Where Do We Go from Here?Further Constraints on the Rho-Eta Plane Quantities That Are Small in the Standard Model THE AMAZING STORY OF THE NEUTRINOThe Mystery of the Missing Neutrinos: Neutrino Oscillations Neutrinos from the Sun Neutrino Astronomy: A New Way to Study the UniverseNeutrinos from Stars Neutrinos from the Early Universe: Neutrinos as Dark Matter Neutrino Mass and Physics beyond the Standard Model CP Violation in Neutrino Mixing?Experimental Search Leptogenesis THE HUNT FOR THE MYSTERIOUS HIGGSWhy We Believe in the HiggsThe Standard Model Needs the Higgs Mechanism Theoretical Calculations Need the Higgs Particle What We Know from Experiment So FarIndirect Experimental Evidence for the Higgs Boson: The Importance of Virtual EffectsDetecting the Higgs Boson Directly Direct Higgs Searches at LEP Direct Higgs Searches at the Tevatron What We Hope to Learn from the LHCWhat Is the LHC? Higgs Searches at LHC Disaster? If the LHC Cannot Find the Higgs BosonIf the LHC Discovers the Higgs Boson, Is That the End of the Story? Possibilities for the FutureMulti-Higgs Models The Need for Further Tests and the Importance of ILC Conclusion Appendix 1: Important Twenty-First Century ExperimentsAppendix 2: Renormalization, Running Coupling Constants, and Grand Unified TheoriesAppendix 3: Complex Numbers, Complex Fields, and Gauge InvarianceAppendix 4: Unitary MatricesAppendix 5: Energy and Momentum in Special Relativity and the Uncertainty Principle