Building Blocks of Matter: A Supplement To The Macmillan Encyclopedia Of Physics

Presents Alphabetized, Cross-referenced, Signed Articles On 153 Topics And Figures In The History Of Elementary Particle Physics, Each Including A Further Reading List. A: Accelerator; Accelerators, Colliding Beams: Electron-positron; Accelerators, Colliding Beams: Electron-proton; Accelerators, Colliding Beams: Hadron; Accelerators, Early; Accelerators, Fixed-target: Electron; Accelerators, Fixed-target: Proton; Anderson, Carl D.; Annihilation And Creation; Antimatter; Antiproton, Discovery Of; Astrophysics; Asymptotic Freedom; Atom; Axion. / B: 'b' Factory; Basic Interactions And Fundamental Forces; Beam Transport; Beijing Accelerator Laboratory; Benefits Of Particle Physics To Society; Big Bang; Big Bang Nucleosynthesis; Boson, Gauge; Boson, Higgs; Broken Symmetry; Brookhaven National Laboratory; Budker Institute Of Nuclear Physics.^ / C: Case Study: Graviational Wave Detection: Ligo; Case Study: Lhc Collider Detectors, Atlas And Cms; Case Study: Long Baseline Neutrino Detectors, K2k, Minos, And Opera; Case Study: Super-kamiokande And The Discovery Of Neutrino Oscillations; Cern (european Laboratory For Particle Physics); Chadwick, James; Charmonium; Ckm Matrrix; Computing; Conservation Laws; Cooling, Particle; Cornell Laboratory For Elementary Particle Physics; Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation; Cosmic Rays; Cosmic Strings, Domain Walls; Cosmological Constant And Dark Energy; Cosmology; Cp Symmetry Violation; Culture And Particle Physics; Cyclotron. / D: Dark Matter; Desy (deutsches Elektronen-synchrotron Laboratory); Detectors; Detectors And Subsystems; Detectors, Astrophysical; Detectors, Collider; Detectors, Fixed-target; Detectors, Particle; Devices, Accelerating; Dirac, Paul.^ / E: Eightfold Way; Einstein, Albert; Electron, Discovery Of; Electroweak Phase Transition; Electroweak Symmetry Breaking; Energy; Energy, Center-of-mass; Energy, Rest; Experiment: Discovery Of The Tau Neutrino; Experiment: Discovery Of The Top Quark; Experiment: G-2 Measurement Of The Muon; Experiment: Search For The Higgs Boson; Extraction Systems. / F: Family; Fermi, Enrico; Fermilab; Feynman Diagrams; Feynman, Richard; Flavor Symmetry; Funding Of Particle Physics. / G: Gauge Theory; Grand Unification. / H: Hadron, Heavy; Higgs Phenomeon; Hubble Constant. / I: Inflation; Influence On Science; Injector System; International Nature Of Particle Physics. / J: (j Particle); Japanese High-energy Accelerator Research Organization, Kek; Jets And Fragmentation. / K: Kendall, Henry. / L: Lattice Gauge Theory; Lawrence, Ernest Orlando; Lepton. / M: Metaphysics; Momentum; Muon, Discovery Of.^ / N: Neutrino; Neutrino Oscillations; Neutrino, Discovery Of; Neutrino, Solar; Neutron, Discovery Of; Noether, Emmy. / O: Outlook. / P: Parity, Nonconservation Of; Particle; Particle Identification; Particle Physics, Elementary; Pauli, Wolfgang; Phase Transitions; Philosophy And Particle Physics; Planck Scale; Positron, Discovery Of. / Q: Quantum Chromodynamics; Quantum Electrodynamics; Quantum Field Theory; Quantum Mechanics; Quantum Statistics; Quantum Tunneling; Quark-gluon Plasma; Quarks; Quarks, Discovery Of. / R: Radiation, Cherenkov; Radiation, Synchrotron; Radioactivity; Radioactivity, Discovery Of; Reines, Frederick; Relativity; Renormalization; Resonances; Rutherford, Ernest. / S: Salam, Abdus; Scattering; Schwinger, Julian; Slac (stanford Linear Accelerator Center); Ssc; Standard Model; String Theory; Su (3); Supernovae; Supersymmetry; Symmetry Principles. / T: Technicolor; Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility; Thomson, Joseph John; Tomonaga, Sin-itiro.^ / U: Unified Theories; Universe. / V: Virtual Processes. / W,x: Wigner, Eugene; Wilson, Robert R.; Wu, Chien-shiung. / Y: Yukawa, Hideki. / Z: Z Factory. John S. Rigden, Editor In Chief. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.