Shifting standards : experiments in particle physics in the twentieth century / Allan Franklin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franklin, Allan, 1938- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Particles (Nuclear physics)--Experiments.

Particles (Nuclear physics).

Physical Description:

lv, 302 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2013]

Contents:

Some measurements of the temperature variation in the electrical resistance of a sample of copper

Do falling bodies move south?

The isolation of an ion, a precision measurement of its charge, and the correction of Stokes's law

Directed quanta of scattered X-rays

A determination of e/m for an electron by a new deflection method

An uncertain interlude

Electron polarization

Mean lifetime of V-particles and heavy mesons

Detection of the free antineutrino

Measurement of the Ke2+ branching ratio

Determination of Kl3 form factors from measurements of decay correlations and muon polarizations

Bad data : an interlude

Measurement of the antineutron-proton cross section at low energy

New measurements of properties of the [omega] hyperon

The coherent scattering of neutrinos

Search for neutral weakly interacting massive particles in the Fermilab Tevatron wideband neutrino beam

Measurement of the B+ total cross section and B+ differential cross section d/dpT in pp collisions at ?s = 1.8 TeV

B meson decays to charmless meson pairs containing [eta] or [eta]' mesons

The case of the disappearing sigmas

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822944300

0822944308

OCLC:

847837283