This is the third edition of a text that is already well established as one of the standard undergraduate books on the subject of elementary particle physics. Professor Hughes has updated the whole text in line with current particle nomenclature and has added material to cover important new developments. There is also a completely new major chapter on particle physics and cosmology, an exciting subject that has become an area of increasing importance in recent years. In this field much can be learned from the way the subject has developed, and so, where this helps its understanding, a historical treatment is used. Unlike other texts on this subject, at all stages the author closely links theoretical developments to the relevant experimental measurements, providing a sound foundation to what might otherwise be a rather abstract subject. He also provides historical background where it will aid comprehension of the material.
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An important part of the study of particle physics is an understanding of experimental tools - the accelerators, beams and detectors by means of which particles are accelerated, their trajectories controlled and their properties measured. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
decay angular distributions, pion spin, meson resonances, baryon resonances, negative mesons, parity transformation, mass eigenstates, particle decaying, charge independence, central detector, hydrogen bubble chamber, quark flavours, standard solar model, spark chambers, nuclear emulsions, strange particles, two pions, formation experiments, solar neutrino flux, isotopic spin, baryon number, neutrino energy, proton synchrotron, decay modes, step operators Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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decay angular distributions, pion spin, meson resonances, baryon resonances, negative mesons, parity transformation, mass eigenstates, particle decaying, charge independence, central detector, hydrogen bubble chamber, quark flavours, standard solar model, spark chambers, nuclear emulsions, strange particles, two pions, formation experiments, solar neutrino flux, isotopic spin, baryon number, neutrino energy, proton synchrotron, decay modes, step operators Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Lie Groups for Pedestrians (Dover Books on Physics) by Harry J. Lipkin in Front Matter, page 218, and Back Matter
- An Introduction to Quarks and Partons by F. E. Close on page 248, and Back Matter
- Neutrino Astrophysics by John N. Bahcall on page 379, and Back Matter
- Particle Physics and Cosmology by P. D. B. Collins in Front Matter
- The Eightfold Way by Murray Gell-mann in Back Matter
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- Particle Physics, 2nd Edition by B. R. Martin on page 119, page 285, and page 365
- Quantum Mechanics: Theory and Applications (Fundamental Theories of Physics) by Ajoy Ghatak in Front Matter, and page 715
- Lectures in Particle Physics (World Scientific lecture notes in physics) by Dan Green on page 127, and page 232
- Cpt and Lorentz Symmetry: Proceedings of the Second Meeting Held Bloomington, USA 15 - 18 August 2001 by V. Alan Kostelecky on page 69, and page 121
- The Force of Symmetry by Vincent Icke in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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