This is a collection of important lecture and original articles and commentaries by Martin Perl, discoverer of the tau lepton and the third generation of elementary particles, and this year's Nobel Prize winner. This book contains a fascinating and realistic picture of experimental science based on the high energy physics research work carried out by him. Using reprints of his articles with his commentaries, the author presents the various aspects of experimental research in science: the pleasures and risks of experimental work; the pain and frustration with experiments that are useless or fail; the dreaming about experiments that were not carried out; the constant search for innovation and creativity in the work; and the special joy of discovery. The articles and commentaries range from the early days of bubble chambers and spark chambers in the 1950's to the author's present research, experiments at an electron-positron collider and a search for free quarks. The book is for the general reader as well as the scientist.
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"... the real jewels in this book are Perl's personal comments and reflections, which appear both as prefaces to each paper and as separate essays. With these he puts the flesh and feeling on his experimental work and on the field as a whole ... Perl's approach and taste in particle physics is refreshing. He has produced a rare book that provides reflection for his colleagues and inspiration for young experimentalists." -- Jasper Kirkby, CERN Courier, 1996
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In the first part of this memoir I describe the earlier thoughts and work of myself and my colleagues at SLAC in the 1960's and early 1970's which led to the discovery of the tau lepton. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Third Workshop, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, New York, Stanford University, World Scientific, International Conference, United States, University of Michigan, Monte Carlo, Department of Energy, Editions Frontieres, Ann Arbor, Second Workshop, American Institute of Physics, Gary Feldman, Large Hadron Collider, Llewellyn Smith, Summer School, Atomic Energy Commission, Review of Particle Properties, Choosing The Experiment, Columbia University, International Symposium, Soviet Union, University of California New!
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In the first part of this memoir I describe the earlier thoughts and work of myself and my colleagues at SLAC in the 1960's and early 1970's which led to the discovery of the tau lepton. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Third Workshop, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, New York, Stanford University, World Scientific, International Conference, United States, University of Michigan, Monte Carlo, Department of Energy, Editions Frontieres, Ann Arbor, Second Workshop, American Institute of Physics, Gary Feldman, Large Hadron Collider, Llewellyn Smith, Summer School, Atomic Energy Commission, Review of Particle Properties, Choosing The Experiment, Columbia University, International Symposium, Soviet Union, University of California New!
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- Physics of Strong Fields (Nato a S I Series Series B, Physics) by Walter Greiner on page 448, and page 461
- Relativistic Quantum Mechanics by James D Bjorken on page 32, and page 132
- The Particle Explosion by Frank Close on page 502, and page 522
- Particle Physics, 2nd Edition by B. R. Martin on page 29, and page 139
- High Energy Hadron Physics by Martin L. Perl on page 132, and page 137
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- From the Preshower to the New Technologies for Supercolliders: In Honour of Antonino Zichichi (World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics, V. 31) by Antonino Zichichi in Front Matter
- Encounters in Nonlinear Optics: Selected Papers of Nicolaas Bloembergen (With Commentary) (World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics) by Nicolaas Bloembergen in Front Matter
- Selected Works of Emil Wolf: With Commentary (World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics) by Emil Wolf in Front Matter
- Selected Papers of Richard Feynman: With Commentary (World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics) by Richard Phillips Feynman in Front Matter
- A Quantum Legacy: Seminal Papers of Julian Schwinger (World Scientific Series) by Kimball A. Milton in Front Matter
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