| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 278 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Science essentials
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Science essentials (National Academy of Sciences (U.S.))
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
"Helen Quinn and Yossi Nir explain both the history of antimatter and recent advances in particle physics and cosmology. And they discuss the enormous, high-precision experiments that particle physicists are undertaking to test the laws of physics at their most fundamental levels - and how their results reveal tantalizing new possibilities for solving this puzzle at the heart of the cosmos." "The Mystery of the Missing Antimatter is at once a history of ideas and an exploration of modern science and the frontiers of human knowledge. This book reveals how the interplay of theory and experimentation advances our understanding and redefines the questions we ask about our universe."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
Constant physics in an evolving universe -- As the universe expands -- What is antimatter? -- Enter neutrinos -- Mesons -- Through the looking glass -- Through the looking antiglass -- The survival of matter -- Enter quarks -- Energy rules -- Symmetry rules -- Standard model gauge symmetries -- A missing piece -- It still doesn't work! -- Tools of the trade -- Searching for clues -- Speculations -- Neutrino surprises -- Following the new clue. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Antimatter -- Popular works.
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Antimatter. |
| Genre/Form |
Popular works.
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| Subject |
Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Popular works.
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Particles (Nuclear physics) |
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Cosmology -- Popular works.
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Cosmology. |
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Particles (Nuclear physics) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Nir, Yosef, 1954-
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| Added Title |
Missing antimatter |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Quinn, Helen R. Mystery of the missing antimatter. Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire [England] : Princeton University Press, ©2008 9780691133096 (DLC) 2007934402 (OCoLC)174129995 |
| ISBN |
9781400835713 (electronic book) |
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1400835712 (electronic book) |
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9780691133096 (alkaline paper) |
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0691133093 |
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0691163936 |
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9780691163932 |
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