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Preface | ||
Prologue | ||
Ch. 1 | What Are We Made of? | 1 |
Are Quarks and Electrons Nature's "Seeds"? | ||
"There Are More Things in Heaven and Earth . . ." | ||
What Are Quarks and Leptons? | ||
Unification | ||
The Role of the Theory | ||
Ch. 2 | A Brief History of Particle Physics | 23 |
The Beginnings of Science | ||
The Beginnings of Modern Science: Measurement and Experimentation | ||
Three Paths to Today's Theory | ||
Ch. 3 | Doing Particle Physics | 41 |
Education | ||
International Community | ||
Funding | ||
Au Revoir, SSC | ||
Ch. 4 | The Standard Theory | 53 |
Matter Particles | ||
Forces and the Particles That Transmit Them - the Bosons | ||
Renormalizability | ||
Ch. 5 | Experimental Facilities | 70 |
Colliders | ||
Detectors | ||
Laboratories and Their Colliders and Detectors | ||
Low-Energy and Nonaccelerator Experiments | ||
Ch. 6 | The Experimental Foundations of the Standard Theory | 91 |
Ch. 7 | What Do Physicists Mean by "We Understand" | 104 |
Levels of Understanding | ||
Level I: Descriptive Understanding | ||
Level II: Input and Mechanism Understanding | ||
Level III: Why Understanding? | ||
Ch. 8 | Higgs Physics | 115 |
Why? | ||
Discovering a Higgs Boson | ||
Attitudes about Higgs Bosons | ||
Ch. 9 | The Standard Theory Will Be Extended | 122 |
Phenomena Not Predicted by the Standard Theory | ||
An Input and Mechanism Understanding of the Standard Theory? | ||
A Why Understanding of the Laws of Nature? | ||
Ch. 10 | Supersymmetry - the Next Breakthrough? | 132 |
What Do We Gain if the Theory is Supersymmetric? | ||
What Makes a Theory Supersymmetric? | ||
Detecting Supersymmetry | ||
Ch. 11 | How Much Unification? Is There A Limit to Understanding? | 142 |
Grand Unification | ||
Can Grand Unified Theories Be Tested? | ||
The Primary Theory | ||
Can the Primary Theory Be Tested? | ||
Are There Limits to Understanding? | ||
Ch. 12 | Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology | 153 |
The Big Bang | ||
Dark Matter | ||
The "Baryon Asymmetry" | ||
Inflation and the Origins of Large-Scale Structure | ||
Cosmoastroparticle Physics | ||
Ch. 13 | Understanding a Flower | 162 |
All Scientific Understanding So Far Is Descriptive Understanding | ||
Complexity and Chaos | ||
Particle Physics and Flowers | ||
App. A Feynman Diagrams and Rules | 168 | |
The Vertices | ||
Examples of Processes | ||
When the Standard Theory Is Extended | ||
App. B Internal Symmetries and the Standard Theory | 174 | |
App. C CP Violation | 179 | |
List of Symbols | 182 | |
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms | 184 | |
Glossary | 186 | |
Index | 213 |
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