Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction

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Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction
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Contents
Foreword
List of illustrations
Chapter 1. Journey to the centre of the universe
	Matter
	Inside the atom
	Forces
	How do we know this?
Chapter 2. How big and small are big and small?
	From quarks to quasars
	The universe in temperature and time
Chapter 3. How we learn what things are made of, and what we found
	Energy and waves
	Accelerating particles
	The electron and proton
Chapter 4. The heart of the matter
	Quarks with flavour
	The neutrino
	Antiparticles
Chapter 5. Accelerators: cosmi cand man-made
	From cyclotrons to synchrotrons
	Linear accelerators
	Colliders
	The Large Hadron Collider
	Factories
Chapter 6. Detectors: cameras and time machines
	Early methods
	Emulsions
	Bubble chamber
	From bubble chamber to spark chamber
	Electronic bubble chambers
	Silicon microscopes
	Detecting neutrinos
	Detectors at colliders
Chapter 7. The forces of Nature
	Force carriers
	Higgs boson
Chapter 8. Exotic matter (and antimatter)
	Strangeness
	Charm
	Bottom and top
	Who ordered that?
	Neutrinos
	Antimatter puzzle
Chapter 9. Where has matter come from?
	The early universe
Chapter 10. Questions for the post-Higgs era
	The Higgs field
	Dark matter
	Supersymmetry
	Quark gluon plasma
	Massive neutrinos and the antimatter mystery
	Science fiction or science fact?
Further reading
Glossary
Index