The Experimental Foundations of Particle Physics

Robert Cahn is a Senior Physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His theoretical work has focused on the Standard Model, and, together with his collaborators, he developed one of the most promising methods for discovering the Higgs boson. As a member of the BaBar Collaboration, he participated in the measurement of CP violation in B mesons. Gerson Goldhaber is a Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California at Berkeley, and Faculty Senior Physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is co-discoverer of the antiproton annihilation process, the Bose–Einstein nature of pions, the J/Psi particle and psion spectroscopy, charmed mesons, and dark energy.

From reviews of the first edition: 'I believe this text to represent a major achievement in collecting, analysing and distilling for the reader, material forming an intensely exciting chapter in modern science.' D. H. Perkins, Nature

• 1. The atom completed and a new particle; 2. The Muon and the Pion; 3. Strangeness; 4. Antibaryons; 5. The resonances; 6. Weak interactions; 7. The Neutral Kaon System; 8. The Structure of the Nucleon; 9. The J/Ψ, the Γ, and charm; 10. Quarks, Gluons, and Jets; 11. The Fifth Quark; 12. From Neutral Currents to Weak Vector Bosons; 13. Testing the Standard Model; 14. The top quark; 15. Mixing and CP violation in heavy quark mesons; 16. Neutrino masses and oscillations; 17. Epilogue; Index.