Essays on Particles and Fields
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Author | : Ranjan Roy Daniel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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This tribute to M.G.K. Menon, presently a member of the Indian Planning Commission, includes contributions from some of his many friends, admirers, and colleagues. For over three decades, Menon has been an major influence on Indian science as a physicist, administrator, and policy maker, and this collection reflects the outstanding tradition of Indian science with which he is so closely identified.
Author | : Murray Gell-Mann |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1991-10-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0521412536 |
This book is a collection of research articles especially written by eminent scientists to celebrate the 60th birthday, in September 1989, of the Nobel Laureate and inventor of 'quarks', Professor Murray Gell-Mann. The main body of contributions are concerned with theoretical particle physics and its applications to cosmology.
Author | : Luciano Maiani |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2016-08-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9814733520 |
'The editors make a good point in claiming the time has come to upgrade the Standard Model into the ‘Standard Theory’ of particle physics, and I think this book deserves a place in the bookshelves of a broad community, from the scientists and engineers who contributed to the progress of high-energy physics to younger physicists, eager to learn and enjoy the corresponding inside stories.'Carlos LourençoCERN CourierThe book gives a quite complete and up-to-date picture of the Standard Theory with an historical perspective, with a collection of articles written by some of the protagonists of present particle physics. The theoretical developments are described together with the most up-to-date experimental tests, including the discovery of the Higgs Boson and the measurement of its mass as well as the most precise measurements of the top mass, giving the reader a complete description of our present understanding of particle physics.
Author | : Werner Heisenberg |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1989-10-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0691024332 |
In nine essays and lectures composed in the last years of his life, Werner Heisenberg offers a bold appraisal of the scientific method in the twentieth century--and relates its philosophical impact on contemporary society and science to the particulars of molecular biology, astrophysics, and related disciplines. Are the problems we define and pursue freely chosen according to our conscious interests? Or does the historical process itself determine which phenomena merit examination at any one time? Heisenberg discusses these issues in the most far-ranging philosophical terms, while illustrating them with specific examples.
Author | : Salmeron R A |
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Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1991-10-16 |
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ISBN | : 9814556386 |
This book collects 30 articles on elementary particle theory, quantum field theory, general relativity and cosmology contributed by well known experts in honour of Prof. Jayme Tiomno's 70th Birthday. The contents of this volume reflect the wide-ranging scientific interests of one of the most respected physicists of our time.
Author | : Roger G. Newton |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9814449687 |
In part 2, the history of the idea of atoms is reviewed, and then the scientific evidence for their existence, with Rutherford's discovery of the atomic nucleus. The investigation of what the nucleus is like follows, including the discovery of the neutron, followed by that of the neutrino - of which there are several different kinds - and the muon as well as the pion. The important work of Paul Dirac is described, as well as the discovery of the positron and other antiparticles. The ways by which particles are discovered, by cloud chambers, bubble chambers, etc. are all explained, followed by the invention of the various machines to accelerate particles to high speeds: the cyclotron, the synchrotron, and the bigger and bigger machines, in the US as well as in Switzerland, including their storage rings.
Author | : John H. Schwarz |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2005-07-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521017596 |
Professor Murray Gell-Mann is one of the most influential and brilliant scientists of the twentieth century. His work on symmetries, including the invention of the 'quark', in the 1950s and early 1960s has provided a foundation for much of modern particle physics and was recognised by the award of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1969. This book is a collection of research articles especially written by eminent scientists to celebrate Gell-Mann's 60th birthday, in September 1989. The main body of contributions are concerned with theoretical particle physics and its applications to cosmology.
Author | : Peter Achinstein |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Physics |
ISBN | : 019506755X |
This volume brings together six published and two new essays by the noted philosopher of science, Peter Achinstein. It represents the culmination of his examination of methodological issues that arise in nineteenth-century physics. He focuses on the philosophical problem of how, if at all, it is possible to confirm scientific hypotheses that postulate 'unobservables' such as light waves, molecules, and electrons. This question is one that not only was of great interest to nineteenth-century physicists and methodologists, but continues to occupy philosophers of science up to the present day. The essays in this volume deal with this vexing problem as it arose in actual scientific practice in three nineteenth-century episodes: the debate between particle and wave theorists of light, Maxwell's kinetic theory of gases, and J.J. Thomson's discovery of the electron. Achinstein shows that the most important issue raised by these three cases concerns the legitimacy of introducing hypotheses that invoke "unobservables". If science is to be empirical, can such hypotheses be employed? How, if at all, is it possible to confirm them?; Achinstein here assesses the philosophical validity of nineteenth-century and modern answers to these questions and presents and defends his own solutions
Author | : C. Fronsdal |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9400946244 |
to our own also needs to be understood. Such unification may also require that the supersymmetry group possess irreducible representations with infinite reductiori on the Poincare subgroup, to accommodate an infinite set of particles. Such possibilities were 5 envisaged long ago and have recently reappeared in Kaluza-Klein . 6 d' . th 7 S . l' th supergraVlty an m superstnng eory. upersymmetry Imp Ies at forces that are mediated by bose exchange must be complemented by forces that are due to the exchange of fermions. The masslessness of neutrinos is suggestive-we continue to favor the idea that neutrinos are fundamental to weak interactions, that they will finally play a more central role than the bit part assigned to them in Weinberg-Salam theory. There seems to be little room for doubting that supersymmetry is badly broken-so where should one be looking for the first tangible manifestations of it? It is remarkable that the successes that can be legitimately claimed for supersymmetry are all in the domain of massless particles and fields. Supergravity is not renormalizable, but it is an improvement (in this respect) over ordinary quantum gravity. Finite super Yang-Mills theories are not yet established, but there is now a strong concensus that they soon will be. In both cases massless fields are involved in an essential way.