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Elementary particles / I. S. Hughes.

By: Hughes, I. S. (Ian Simpson), 1930-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Penguin library of physical sciencesPhysics.Publisher: Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1972Description: 254 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0140802770.Subject(s): Particles (Nuclear physics)DDC classification: 539.721

Bibliography p. 247-250. - Includes index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Accelerators, beams and detectors
  • Pions and muons
  • Conservation laws
  • Strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions
  • Strange particles
  • Spin and parity of the K-mesons and non-conservation of parity in weak interactions
  • Weak interactions: basic ideas
  • Invariance under the CP and T operations, properties of Ko-mesons
  • Strongly-decaying resonances
  • SU (3) and the quark model: classification and dynamic probes
  • Weak interactions and weak-electromagnetic unification
  • New flavours
  • Quark and gluon interactions
  • Higher symmetries
  • Particle physics and cosmology
  • Appendices
  • References
  • Index

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