Constructing Quarks : A Sociological History of Particle Physics by Andrew...

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University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226667995
ISBN-13
9780226667997
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88219

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Number of Pages
475 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Constructing Quarks : a Sociological History of Particle Physics
Publication Year
1999
Subject
History, Physics / Nuclear
Type
Textbook
Author
Andrew Pickering
Subject Area
Science
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Trade Paperback

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0.1 in
Item Weight
23.8 Oz
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0.9 in
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Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
84-000235
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
539.7/2/09045
Table Of Content
Preface Part One - Introduction, the Prehistory of HEP and its Material Constraints 1. Introduction 2. Men and Machines 2.1. The HEP Community 2.2. HEP Experiment: Basics 2.3. Accelerator Chronology 3. The Old Physics: HEP, 1945-64 3.1. The Population Explosion 3.2. Conservation Laws and Quantum Numbers: From Spin to the Eightfold Way 3.3. Quantum Field Theory 3.4. The S-Matrix Part Two - Constructing Quarks and Founding the New Physics: HEP, 1964-74 4. The Quark Model 4.1. The Genesis of Quarks 4.2. The Constituent Quark Model 4.3. Quarks and Current Algebra 4.4. The Reality of Quarks 5. Scaling, Hard Scattering and the Quark-Parton Model 5.1. Scaling at SLAC 5.2. The Parton Model 5.3. Partons, Quarks and Electron Scattering 5.4. Neutrino Physics 5.5. Lepton-Pair Production, Electron-Positron Annihilation and Hadronic Hard Scattering 6. Gauge Theory, Electroweak Unification and the Weak Neutral Current 6.1. Yang-Mills Gauge Theory 6.2. Electroweak Unification and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking 6.3. The Renormalisation of Gauge Theory 6.4. Electroweak Models and the Discovery of the Weak Neutral Current 6.5. Neutral Currents and Neutron Background 7. Quantum Chromodynamics: A Gauge Theory of the Strong Interactions 7.1. From Scale Invariance to Asymptotic Freedom 7.2. Quantum Chronodynamics 7.3. The Failings of QCD 8. HEP in 1974: The State of Play 8.1. Gauge Theory--Reprise 8.2. The End of an Era 8.3. Three Transitional Biographies Part Three - Establishing the New Physics: The November Revolution and Beyond 9. Charm: The Lever that Turned the World 9.1. The November Revolution 9.2. The R-crisis 9.3. The New Particles 9.4. Charm 9.5. A New World 10. The Standard Model of Electroweak Interactions 10.1. More New Quarks and Leptons 10.2. The Slaying of Mutants 10.3. The Standard Model Established: Unification, Social and Conceptual 11. QCD in Practice 11.1. Phenomenological QCD--An Overview 11.2. QCD and Spectroscopy 11.3. QCD and Hard Scattering 12. Gauge Theory and Experiment: 1970-90 12.1. Experimental Trends 12.2. Theory Incarnate 12.3. Visions 13. Grand Unification 13.1. GUTs and HEP 13.2. GUTs and Cosmology 13.3. GUTs and Proton Decay 13.4. Gauge Theory Supreme 14. Producing a World 14.1. The Dynamics of Practice 14.2. Traditions and Symbiosis 14.3. Incommensurability Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Widely regarded as a classic in its field, Constructing Quarks recounts the history of the post-war conceptual development of elementary-particle physics. Inviting a reappraisal of the status of scientific knowledge, Andrew Pickering suggests that scientists are not mere passive observers and reporters of nature. Rather they are social beings as well as active constructors of natural phenomena who engage in both experimental and theoretical practice. "A prodigious piece of scholarship that I can heartily recommend."--Michael Riordan, New Scientist "An admirable history. . . . Detailed and so accurate."--Hugh N. Pendleton, Physics Today, Widely regarded as a classic in its field, Constructing Quarks recounts the history of the post-war conceptual development of elementary-particle physics. Inviting a reappraisal of the status of scientific knowledge, Andrew Pickering suggests that scientists are not mere passive observers and reporters of nature. Rather they are social beings as well as active constructors of natural phenomena who engage in both experimental and theoretical practice. "A prodigious piece of scholarship that I can heartily recommend."-Michael Riordan, New Scientist "An admirable history. . . . Detailed and so accurate."-Hugh N. Pendleton, Physics Today
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QC793.16

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