The Quark

Author : Paul F. Kisak
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781523293469
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quark written by Paul F. Kisak and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quark is an elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter. Quarks combine to form composite particles called hadrons, the most stable of which are protons and neutrons, the components of atomic nuclei. Due to a phenomenon known as color confinement, quarks are never directly observed or found in isolation; they can be found only within hadrons, such as baryons (of which protons and neutrons are examples), and mesons. For this reason, much of what is known about quarks has been drawn from observations of the hadrons themselves. Quarks have various intrinsic properties, including electric charge, mass, color charge and spin. Quarks are the only elementary particles in the Standard Model of particle physics to experience all four fundamental interactions, also known as fundamental forces(electromagnetism, gravitation, strong interaction, and weak interaction), as well as the only known particles whose electric charges are not integer multiples of the elementary charge. There are six types of quarks, known as flavors: up, down, strange, charm, top, and bottom. Up and down quarks have the lowest masses of all quarks. The heavier quarks rapidly change into up and down quarks through a process of particle decay: the transformation from a higher mass state to a lower mass state. Because of this, up and down quarks are generally stable and the most common in the universe, whereas strange, charm, bottom, and top quarks can only be produced in high energy collisions (such as those involving cosmic rays and in particle accelerators). For every quark flavor there is a corresponding type of antiparticle, known as an antiquark, that differs from the quark only in that some of its properties have equal magnitude but opposite sign. This book gives a comprehensive overview of the quark.

Author : Murray Gell-Mann
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805072532
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quark and the Jaguar written by Murray Gell-Mann and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-09-15 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an explanation of the connections between nature at its most basic level and natural selection, archaeology, linguistics, child development, computers and other complex adaptive systems.

Author : Yoichiro Nambu
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814338028
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quarks: Frontiers In Elementary Particle Physics written by Yoichiro Nambu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1985-05-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explains in a precise and complete manner how elementary particle physics has evolved over the past 50 years. The historical development of the ideas that have shaped our thinking about the ultimate constituents of matter is traced out. The author has been associated with some of the originators of elementary particle theory and has made significant contributions to the field. Here, he gives a first-person description of some of the main developments leading to our present view of the universe.

Author : Fred Bortz
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823945337
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quark written by Fred Bortz and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2003-12-15 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses quarks, fundamental particles that make up protons, neutrons, and other subatomic particles, and describes the process by which scientists came to "detect" them.

Author : Maurice Jacob
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789810236878
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quark Structure of Matter written by Maurice Jacob and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1992-11-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the quark structure of matter has been one of the most important advances in contemporary physics. It has unravelled a new and deeper level of structure in matter, and physics at that level reveals a unity and aesthetic simplicity never before attained. All forces emerge from a unique invariance principle and each of the basic interactions results from a specific symmetry property. Quarks interact among themselves through their ?colour?, as now accurately described by quantum chromodynamics.This volume brings together eight major review articles by Maurice Jacob, a physicist at the forefront of research on the quark structure of matter. He has, in particular, been involved with two research topics in this field. The first is the study of hadronic jets, which one actually sees instead of quarks, because of the opacity of the vacuum to colour. The second is the search for quark matter, a new form of matter believed to exist at high temperatures, when the vacuum should become transparent to colour.The papers in this volume provide a comprehensive review of these phenomenological studies on the quark structure of matter, and also a fasinating insight into the pace of recent progress in these areas. The book comes complete with an original introduction by the author, and also contains a pedagogical review on what is a most engrossing and rewarding field of research in physics.

Author : G.V Efimov
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780750302401
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quark Confinement Model of Hadrons written by G.V Efimov and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filling the gap in the literature on low-energy quark models, The Quark Confinement Model of Hadrons investigates confinement effects in the low-energy regions of particle physics using the methods of nonlocal quantum field theory. It also elucidates their role in describing microscopic quantities that characterize hadron-hadron interactions. The authors present a quark confinement model to describe the low-energy physics of light hadrons. Hadrons are treated as collective colorless excitations of quark-gluon interactions while the quark confinement is to be provided by averaging over gluon backgrounds. The model is shown to reproduce the low-energy relations of chiral theory in the case of null momenta and, in addition, allow the researcher to obtain more sophisticated hadron characteristics, such as slope parameters and form factors. Presenting a unified view on a number of low-energy phenomena, The Quark Confinement Model of Hadrons enables an understanding of problems related to the treatment of large distances within quantum chromodynamics.

Author : Sourav Sarkar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642022855
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma written by Sourav Sarkar and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to offer to the next generation of young researchers a broad and largely self-contained introduction to the physics of heavy ion collisions and the quark-gluon plasma, providing material beyond that normally found in the available textbooks. For each of the main aspects - QCD thermodynamics and global features of the QGP, collision hydrodynamics, electromagnetic probes, jet and quarkonium production, color glass condensate, and the gravity connection - the present volume provides extensive and pedagogical lectures, surveying the present status of both theory and experiment. A particular feature of this volume is that all lectures have been written with the active assistance of selected students present at the course in order to ensure the adequate level and coverage for the intended readership.

Author : Andrew Pickering
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226667997
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing Quarks written by Andrew Pickering and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely regarded as a classic in its field, Constructing Quarks recounts the history of the post-war conceptual development of elementary-particle physics. Inviting a reappraisal of the status of scientific knowledge, Andrew Pickering suggests that scientists are not mere passive observers and reporters of nature. Rather they are social beings as well as active constructors of natural phenomena who engage in both experimental and theoretical practice. "A prodigious piece of scholarship that I can heartily recommend."—Michael Riordan, New Scientist "An admirable history. . . . Detailed and so accurate."—Hugh N. Pendleton, Physics Today

Author : R. Klapisch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461595797
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medium-Energy Antiprotons and the Quark—Gluon Structure of Hadrons written by R. Klapisch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth course of the International School on Physics with Low Energy Antiprotons was held in Erice, Sicily, at the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture from 25 to 31 January, 1990. The previous courses covered topics related to fundamental symmetries, light and heavy quark spectroscopy, and antiproton-nucleus interactions. The purpose of this school is to review theoretical and experimental aspects of low energy antiproton physics concerning the quark-gluon structure of hadrons and the dynamics of the. antiproton-nucleon interaction. Another important objective is the discussion of future directions of research with low-and medium-energy antiprotons in the context of future medium energy facilities at CERN and elsewhere. These proceedings contain both the tutorial lectures and the various contributions presented during the school by the participants. The proceedings have been organised in three sections. The first section is devoted to the theoretical lectures and contributions. The selection of the various subjects wants to emphasize the correlation between antiproton-nucleon physics and the underlying description in terms of quarks and gluons. The second section contains an overview about 35 years of experiments with antiprotons. It gives an introduction to the particle physics aspects of the field by outlining the historical development of experiment and theory, and by describing the motivation and the results of three recent LEAR experiments in more detail. The third section contains most of the contributions of the participants describing in more detail certain aspects of current or planned experiments at LEAR.

Author : Aneesh V. Manohar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009402145
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heavy Quark Physics written by Aneesh V. Manohar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: