Atom land : a guided tour through the strange (and impossibly small) world of particle physics /

"This book brings the impossibly small world of particle physics to life, taking readers on a guided journey through the subatomic world. With maps to help "guide" the reader through "Atom Land" along the way, as they learn about "electron ports," "boson conti...

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Main Author: Butterworth, Jon (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : The Experiment, LLC, 2018.
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264 1 |a New York, NY :  |b The Experiment, LLC,  |c 2018. 
300 |a xvi, 284 pages :  |b maps ;  |c 23 cm 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
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505 0 |a Prologue: The journey begins -- Expedition I: Sea legs. Setting sail ; The ocean wave ... ; ... Or particle? ; Traveling in the quantum field -- Expedition II: Atom land. Atoms ; Going subatomic: the electron. Nuclear options. The source of chemistry -- Expedition III: The Isle of Leptons, and roads onward. Electromagnetism ; Invariance and relativity ; The good ship Dirac ; Spin and antimatter ; The electron's overweight siblings ; Rest stop -- Gravity: a distant diversion. The weakest force ; Planes and merry-go-rounds ; Different, yet somehow, the same ; Ripples in the space-time continuum -- Expedition IV: Great train journeys. Protons, neutrons, and the nucleus ; Hadrons ; Quarks and the strong force ; Life beyond the bridge ; Flavors and generations -- Expedition V: The Isles by air. The weak force ; Parity, helicity, and chirality ; Mixed messages ; North from South -- Expedition VI: The remote neutrino sector. Massless matter? ; The standard model is dead ; long live the standard model! ; Neutrino badlands -- Expedition VII: Into Bosonia. Symmetry and conservation ; Symmetry and bosons ; Virtual particles and the defense against infinity ; Mass and hidden symmetry ; Electroweak symmetry breaking ; Hunting the Higgs -- Expedition VIII: Far East. Why go? ; Clues and constraints ; Sea monsters and dark matters ; Supersymmetry ; Into another dimension? ; Over the edge ; A fifth force ; Into the cosmos. 
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