The Mysterious World of Fundamental Particles

This book covers the following topics: Discovery of Fundamental Particles - Classification of Fundamental Particles - Quarks - Leptons - Antiparticles - Bosons - Interactions - Centre-of-mass Energy - Virtual Photons - Electromagnetic Interactions - Gluons and Colour Charges - W Boson and Weak Processes - Coupling and Coupling Constants - Hadrons - Baryons and Mesons - Hyperfine Splitting - Discovery of Partons inside Nucleons - Baryon Octet, Baryon Decuplet, Meson Nonet - Strangeness - Isospin - Baryon Octet with spin 1/2 - Baryon Decuplet with spin 3/2 - Meson Nonet with spin 0 - Meson Nonet with spin 1 - Discovery of Strange Quark - Examples of the Decays - Cosmic Rays and Muons - Parity - Charge conjugation - CP Operation - Cross-Section and Resonance - Branching Ratio - Discovery of W and Z bosons - Accelerators and Colliders - Discovery of Vector Mesons - Quarkonium - Omega Baryons - Production and Separation of Secondary Beams - Examples of Interactions - Neutral K Mesons - D Mesons - B Mesons - Supermultiplets - Charmed and Bottom Lambda Baryons - Charmed and Bottom Sigma Baryons - Charmed and Bottom Xi Baryons - Charmed and Bottom Omega Baryons - Positive Bottom Sigma-star Baryon - Neutral Bottom Xi-star Baryon - The Top Quark - V Particles - Higgs Boson - Neutrinos - Mean Lifetime - Electroweak Unification - Grand Unified Theory - Supersummetry - The Big Bang Theory