The Experimental Foundations of Particle Physics - Softcover

Cahn, Robert N.; Goldhaber, Gerson Eds

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Synopsis

This text describes the development of modern particle physics, emphasizing the role and significance of crucial experiments.

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Book Description

A unique insight into particle physics for researchers and graduate students, this second edition contains new chapters on the W and Z bosons, the top quark discovery, B-meson mixing and CP violation, and neutrino oscillations. Each chapter is accompanied by reprinted articles, and problems with a broad range of difficulty.

About the Author

Robert Cahn is a Senior Physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His theoretical work has focused on the Standard Model, and, together with his collaborators, he developed one of the most promising methods for discovering the Higgs boson. As a member of the BaBar Collaboration, he participated in the measurement of CP violation in B mesons.

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