50 years of quarks / edited by Harald Fritzsch, Murray Gell-Mann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fritzsch, Harald, 1943-2022, editor.

Gell-Mann, Murray, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quarks.

Quarks--Mathematical models.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (517 p.)

Place of Publication:

Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Today it is known that the atomic nuclei are composed of smaller constituents, the quarks. A quark is always bound with two other quarks, forming a baryon or with an antiquark, forming a meson. The quark model was first postulated in 1964 by Murray Gell-Mann -- who coined the name "quark" from James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake -- and by George Zweig, who then worked at CERN. In the present theory of strong interactions -- Quantum Chromodynamics proposed by H Fritzsch and Gell-Mann in 1972 -- the forces that bind the quarks together are due to the exchange of eight gluons. On the 50th anniversary of the quark model, this invaluable volume looks back at the developments and achievements in the elementary particle physics that eventuated from that beautiful model. Written by an international team of distinguished physicists, each of whom have made major developments in the field, the volume provides an essential overview of the present state to the academics and researchers.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; A Schematic Model of Baryons and Mesons; References; Quarks; Concrete Quarks; 1. Introduction; 2. How it Started; 3. Caltech; 4. Something Unbelievable; 5. The Explanation; 6. The Question; 7. The Difficulties; 8. The Reaction; 9. Acceptance; 9.1. Bayes' theorem; 9.2. Different priors, different times; 10. Invention or Discovery; 11. Final Thoughts; 12. Epilogue; Acknowledgments; References; On the Way from Sakatons to Quarks; 1956. Moscow; 1957. Moscow; 1957. Padua - Venice; 1957. Stanford and Berkeley; 1958. Geneva; 1959. Kiev Symmetry; 1960. Rochester; 1962. Geneva Again

1962. From 3 to 4 Sakatons1963. My First Book; 1964. Quarks; 1965. Moscow; 1967. 14th Conference on Physics at the University of Brussels; 1968. Moscow; 1980. Moscow; 1985. "Particle Physics: The Quest for the Substance of Substance"; Hadrons and quarks; Isotopic Spin. SU(2) Group; Strange particles; SU(3) symmetry; The charmed quark; The b quark and others; Flavors and generations; Color and gluons; Quantum chromodynamics (QCD); Asymptotic freedom and confinement; Chiral symmetry; QCD on the march; On the reliability of experimental data; Appendix. Four Pages from the Dubna Preprint11

ReferencesMy Life with Quarks; References; Quarks and the Bootstrap Era; 1. Introduction; 2. The Bootstrap Era; 3. SU(3) and the Quark Model; 4. Duality of the Strong Interactions; 5. Duality Diagrams; 6. Epilog; References; From Symmetries to Quarks and Beyond; 1. Introduction; 2. Personal Perspective; 3. G2 versus SU(3); 4. Sakata Model and its Demise; 5. Breaking SU(3); 6. SU(3) Wins; 7. Quarks and Aces; 8. Gluons and Nambu; 9. SU(6) and Color; 10. Combining Internal and Space-Time Symmetries; 11. Higher Mass Quarks; 12. The Path to Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD); 13. Final Comments

ReferencesHow I Got to Work with Feynman on the Covariant Quark Model; 1. Graduate Student at Caltech; 2. Feynman and the Covariant Quark Model; 3. Postdoc at Caltech; 4. Feynman Seen a Little from the Inside; 5. Epilogue; References; What is a Quark?; Acknowledgments; Insights and Puzzles in Particle Physics; 1. Prehistory; 2. Situation at the Beginning of the 1960s; 3. Quarks; 4. Gauge Fields; 5. Quantum Chromodynamics; 6. Standard Model; 7. Why is QED Different from QCD?; 8. Comparison with Gravity; 9. Physics of Vacuum Polarization; 10. Why is QFD different from QCD?

11. Transparency of the Vacuum12. Masses of the Leptons and Quarks; 13. Beyond the Standard Model; References; Quarks and QCD; References; The Discovery of Gluon; 1. Quarks are Not Enough; 2. The Theory of the Strong Interactions; 3. Where are the Gluons?; 4. The Three-Jet Idea; 5. Proof at Last; 6. After the Discovery; Acknowledgments; References; Discovery of the Gluon; 1. Particle Physics in 1977; 2. PETRA and TASSO; 3. Gluon Bremsstrahlung; 4. Three-Jet Analysis; 5. Discovery of the Gluon; 6. Confirmations and the Spin of the Gluon; 7. Recent Developments; 8. Summary; Acknowledgments

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 18, 2015).

ISBN:

981-4618-11-X

OCLC:

907289267