Our current understanding of elementary particles and their interactions emerged from break-through experiments. This book presents these experiments, beginning with the discoveries of the neutron and positron, and following them through mesons, strange particles, antiparticles, and quarks and gluons. This second edition contains new chapters on the W and Z bosons, the top quark,...
Fundamental
The Experimental Foundations of Particle Physics
The Supersymmetric World
A text presenting a view of the process of supersymmetry, combining anecdotal descriptions and personal reminiscences with technical accounts of the pioneers in the field. Offers a historical look at supersymmetry for researchers and scholars in high energy physics and historians of science. Softcover, hardcover also available.
Mathematics for Physicists and Engineers
Mathematics is the basic language in physics and engineering. It is an essential tool which first and second year students have to master as soon as possible. A lack of competence in mathematics is the main reason for failure and drop out in the beginning periods of study. This textbook offers an accessible and...
Adventures in Theoretical Physics: Selected Papers With Commentaries
During the period 1964-1972, Stephen L Adler wrote seminal papers on high energy neutrino processes, current algebras, soft pion theorems, sum rules, and perturbation theory anomalies that helped lay the foundations for our current standard model of elementary particle physics. These papers are reprinted here together with detailed historical commentaries describing how they evolved,...