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Gravitation, cosmology, and cosmic-ray physics / Panel on Gravitation, Cosmology, and Cosmic-Ray Physics, Physics Survey Committee, Board on Physics and Astronomy, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources, National Research Council.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Physics through the 1990s.
- Physics through the 1990s
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gravitation.
- Cosmology.
- Cosmic rays.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (187 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1986.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- PHYSICS THROUGH THE 1990s
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contents
- I Summary of Principal Recommendations
- RECOMMENDATIONS ON GRAVITATIONAL PHYSICS
- Space Program in Gravitation
- Ground-Based Studies in Gravitation
- Gravitation Theory
- RECOMMENDATIONS ON COSMOLOGY
- Space Program in Cosmology
- Ground-Based Studies in Cosmology
- Growth in Cosmology Research
- RECOMMENDATIONS ON COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS
- Space Program in Cosmic Rays
- Ground-Based Cosmic-Ray Studies
- II Gravitation
- 1 Experimental Tests of General Relativity: Introduction
- 2 Experimental Tests of General Relativity: Highlights
- EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE, EOTVOS TO LUNAR LASER RANGING
- GRAVITATIONAL REDSHIFT, MÖSSBAUER TO ROCKETBORNE MASER
- LIGHT DEFLECTION, ECLIPSES TO RADIO INTERFEROMETRY
- SIGNAL RETARDATION, NEWEST AND MOST ACCURATE TEST
- PERIHELION ADVANCE, EINSTEIN'S ONLY HANDLE
- CHANGING GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT, SOLAR-SYSTEM TIME VERSUS ATOMIC TIME
- LABORATORY TESTING OF GRAVITATION, SEARCHING FOR THE UNEXPECTED
- 3 Experimental Tests of General Relativity: Opportunities
- TESTS FOR "MAGNETIC" GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS
- Relativity Gyroscope Experiment
- Black-Hole Jets
- RANGING TO THE MOON AND INNER PLANETS
- Radar Ranging
- Ranging to Planetary Landers and Orbiters
- Lunar Laser Ranging
- MEASUREMENT OF SECOND-ORDER SOLAR-SYSTEM EFFECTS
- GRAVITATIONAL QUADRUPOLE MOMENT OF THE SUN
- SYSTEMS OF COMPACT STARS
- 4 Search for Gravitational Waves: Introduction
- THEORY
- SOURCES
- DETECTORS
- 5 Search for Gravitational Waves: Highlights
- BINARY PULSAR
- BAR DETECTORS
- INTERFEROMETRIC DETECTORS
- PULSAR TIMING AND MILLISECOND PULSARS
- SOURCES OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES-RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
- 6 Search for Gravitational Waves: Opportunities
- LASER INTERFEROMETER DETECTOR WITH 5-KILOMETER BASELINE
- BAR DETECTOR SENSITIVITY AND BANDWIDTH.
- OBSERVATIONS WITH BAR DETECTORS
- PULSAR SEARCHES
- SPACECRAFT TRACKING
- SPACE INTERFEROMETERS
- EVENT RATES AND SOURCE CALCULATIONS
- COMPUTATION
- 7 Gravitation Theory: Introduction
- 8 Gravitation Theory: Highlights
- NEUTRON STARS
- GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE AND BLACK HOLES
- QUANTUM PARTICLE CREATION BY BLACK HOLES
- QUANTUM EFFECTS IN THE EARLY UNIVERSE
- ALTERNATIVE THEORIES
- EXACT SOLUTIONS OF THE EINSTEIN EQUATIONS
- ASYMPTOTIC PROPERTIES OF SPACE-TIME
- NUMERICAL RELATIVITY
- EMISSION OF GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION
- THE POSITIVE ENERGY THEOREM
- QUANTUM FIELD THEORY IN CURVED SPACE-TIME
- QUANTUM GRAVITY
- Supergravity
- Kaluza-Klein Theories
- 9 Gravitation Theory: Opportunities
- CLASSICAL GRAVITATION, SINGULARITIES, ASYMPTOTIC STRUCTURE
- ASTROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF NEUTRON STARS AND BLACK HOLES
- NEW KINDS OF EXPERIMENTAL TESTS
- COMMUNICATION WITH OTHER SUBFIELDS: GRAVITATION EXPERIMENT, ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS, FIELD THEORY AND ELEMENTATY-PARTICLE…
- 10 Recommendations
- SPACE TECHNIQUES
- GROUND-BASED TECHNIQUES
- GRAVITATION THEORY
- III Cosmology
- 11 Introduction - The Standard Model
- 12 Highlights
- BIG-BANG NUCLEOSYNTHESIS
- LARGE-SCALE PROPERTIES OF THE UNIVERSE
- STRUCTURE IN THE UNIVERSE
- INVISIBLE MASS
- COSMOLOGY AND GRAND UNIFICATION
- THE INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE
- GRAVITATIONAL LENSES
- 13 Opportunities
- OBSERVATIONS FROM SPACE
- CONTINUED GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS
- PARTICLE PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY
- 14 Recommendations
- SPACE PROGRAM
- GROUND-BASED PROGRAM
- HUMAN AND COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES
- IV Cosmic Rays
- 15 Overview
- 16 Highlights
- NUCLEOSYNTHESIS
- Isotope Ratios
- Abundances of Heavy Elements
- Solar Neutrinos
- ACCELERATION
- Shock Acceleration
- Acceleration Fractionation.
- Termination of Acceleration Mechanism
- High-Energy Gamma Rays
- Anomalous Component
- GALACTIC COSMIC-RAY TRANSPORT AND THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM
- Energy Dependence of Escape from Galaxy
- Correlation Between Anisotropy and Energy
- Secondaries from Light Nuclei
- Propagation in Galactic Halo
- Connection with Gamma and Radio Astronomy
- HIGH-ENERGY NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
- Nucleon Decay Experiments as Cosmic-Ray Detectors
- Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions
- Cross Sections, Spectra, Anisotropies, and Composition of Primary Cosmic Rays Above 1017 Electron Volts
- Magnetic Monopoles
- 17 Opportunities
- SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS
- Isotopes
- GALACTIC COSMIC-RAY ISOTOPES
- SOLAR-FLARE ISOTOPES
- Ultraheavy Elements
- High-Energy Composition and Spectra
- Positrons, Antiprotons, Deuterium, and 3He
- Antimatter
- Nucleus-Nucleus Interactions
- Solar Modulation of Cosmic Rays
- GROUND-BASED EXPERIMENTS
- Gamma-Ray Astronomy
- Air-Shower Detectors
- Neutrino Astronomy
- Nucleon Decay Detectors
- Future Opportunities
- 18 Recommendations
- Major New Programs
- Continuing Programs
- Studies for the Future
- HIGHEST-ENERGY COSMIC RAYS AND EXTENSIVE AIR SHOWERS
- High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy
- Large Underground Detectors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610221912
- 9781280221910
- 1280221917
- 9780309568074
- 0309568072
- OCLC:
- 326709809
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