The Rise of the Standard Model A History of Particle Physics from 1964 to 1979 [Paperback]

This volume explores the rise of the Standard Model in modern particle physics.Based on a conference held at Stanford University, this is the third volume of a series recounting the history of particle physics. It focuses on the Standard Model, which explains the microstructure of the world in terms of quarks and leptons and their interactions.Based on a conference held at Stanford University, this is the third volume of a series recounting the history of particle physics. It focuses on the Standard Model, which explains the microstructure of the world in terms of quarks and leptons and their interactions.Based on a conference held at Stanford University, this book gives the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of an exciting physics revolution--the rise of the Standard Model. The third volume of a series recounting the history of particle physics, this volume focuses on the Standard Model, which explains the microstructure of the world in terms of quarks and leptons and their interactions. Major contributors include Steven Weinberg, Murray Gell-Mann, Michael Redhead, Silvan Schweber, Leon Lederman, and John Heilbron. A collaboration of physicists and historians of science, the wide-ranging articles explore the detailed scientific experiments, the institutional settings in which they took place, and the ways in which the many details of the puzzle fit together to account for the Standard Model.Contributors; Editors' acknowledgements; Photographs of the symposium; Abbreviations and acronyms; Mathematical notation; Part I. Introduction: 1. The rise of the standard model: 19641979 Laurie M. Brown, Michael Riordan, Max Dresden, and Lillian Hoddeson; 2. Changing attitudes and the standard model Steven Weinberg; 3. Two previous standard models J. L. Heilbron; Part II. Quarks and Leptons: 4. From the psi to charmed mesons: three years with the SLAC-LBL detector at SPEAR Gerson Goldhaber; 5. The discovery of the tau lepton Martin Perl; 6. The discovery of the upsil#µ