HandbooHandbook of Particle Physics - J. Sundaresan
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- Text book title : HandbooHandbook of Particle Physics
- Author :J. Sundaresan
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- Total No. of pages : 439 pages
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1 -Historical Overview
- Electron Discovered (1897)
- Photon--Quantum of Radiation (1905)
- Natural Radioactivity
- Thomson Model of Atom
- Rutherford Model of Atom
- Measurement of Electron Charge by Millikan, X-ray Diffrac-
- tion, Isotopes
- Bohr Model of the Atom and the Beginnings of Quantum Me-
- chanics
- Chemistry, Nuclear Physics as Separate Disciplines
- Proton Discovered (1919)
- Need for Neutral Component in the Nucleus
- Strong Interactions as Distinct from Electromagnetic
- Intrinsic Angular Momentum--Electron Spin Introduced
- Proton Spin Determined
- Dirac's Theory of the Electron
- Events Leading to the Discovery of the Neutron
- Chadwick's Discovery of the Neutron
- Photon Spin Determined (1931)
- Nuclear Magnetic Moments Measured; Neutron Spin
- Electron Spin from Dirac's Theory and Antiparticles
- Discovery of Cosmic Radiation and the Positron
- Postulate of the Neutrino
- Field Theory of 3 Decay
- Yukawa's Prediction of Mesons
- Nuclear Physics Developments (1930-1950); Isotopic Spin
- Muon discovered
- Lamb Shift, # - 2 measurements
- Field Theories--Quantization and QED
- Pion Discovered (1947)
- V Particles
- Pions Produced in the Laboratory (1949)
- Pion Properties Determined (1951)
- Nature of V Particles Clarified: A �� and K ��
- Charged Hyperons
- V Particles, Hyperons, New Particles, Produced in the Labo-
- ratory
- Associated Production of New Particles
- Gell-Mann, Nishijima Scheme
- Yang-Mills Field Theory (1954)
- The Tau-Theta Puzzle
- Parity Violation Observed (1957)
- C'P Conservation (1957)
- Neutral K Mesons and C'P Violation
- SU3 Symmetry
- Other Theoretical Developments (1950-1970)
- Other Developments in Experimental Techniques (1950-1990)
- Direct Observation of Neutrinos (1956)
- Neutrinos of Different Flavor (1957)
- Experimental Discovery of Neutrinos of Different Flavor (1963)
- Quark-Lepton Symmetry and Charm Quark Proposal (1964)
- Bjorken Scaling and Its Experimental Discovery (1969)
- Parton Model (1969)
- Renormalization of Yang-Mills Field Theory (1971)
- Experiments Find Weak Neutral Current Effects (1973)
- Yang-Mills Theories and Asymptotic Freedom (1973)
- QCD Formulated (1973)
- Standard Model Formulated (1973-1974)
- Discovery of Charm Quark; Hidden Charm (1974)
- Charm Hadrons Found (1975-1977)
- Tau Lepton Found (1975)
- Discovery of the Bottom/Beauty Quark; Hidden Bottom/Beauty
- (1977)
- Efforts at Grand Unification
- Supersymmetry
- Weak Neutral Currents (1978)
- Evidence for Gluons (1979)
- Gluon Spin Determined (1980)
- Hadrons with b Quarks Found (1981)
- Discovery of W + and Z �� (1983)
- High Energy e+e - Experiments at LEP and SLC
- Discovery of the Top Quark (1995)
- More on Neutrinos
- Future Outlook
- Machines
- Accelerators
- Cockcroft-Walton Generators
- Van de Graaff Accelerator
- Cyclotron
- Synchrocyclotron
- Betatron
- Betatron Oscillations
- Synchrotron: Principle of Phase Stability
- Alternating Gradient Strong Focusing Machines
- Some FLxed Target High Energy Accelerators
- Synchrotron Radiation
- Linear Accelerator
- Colliding Beams Accelerator
- Luminosity in Colliding Beams
- Proton-Proton and Proton-Antiproton Colliders
- e+e - Collider Rings
- e+e - Linear Collider
- Development of Detectors for Particle Physics
- Ionization Energy Loss and the Bethe-Bloch Equation
- Effects of Multiple Scattering of Charged Particles
- Energy Loss by Radiation: Bremsstrahlung
- Physical Processes with Photons
- Atomic Photoelectric Absorption
- Scattering of Photons by Quasi-Free Electrons
- Production of Electron-Positron Pairs by Gamma Rays
- Energy Loss by Strong Interactions
- Zinc-Sulphide Screen
- Cloud Chamber
- Bubble Chamber
- Spark Chamber