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Tables of Contents for The Particle Odyssey
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
The World of Particles
1
16
Cosmic Explorers
4
3
Particle Physics Now
7
6
A Journey to the Start of Time
13
4
Voyage into the Atom
17
18
X-Rays and Radioactivity
18
6
The First Particle
24
1
Rutherford and the Atom
24
4
Inside the Nucleus
28
2
Splitting the Atom
30
5
The Structure of the Atom
35
14
The Electron
36
3
The Nucleus
39
3
The Proton and the Neutron
42
4
The Photon
46
3
The Extraterrestrials
49
16
The Discovery of Cosmic Rays
50
4
The First New Particles
54
4
Strange Particles
58
1
Powell, Pions, and Emulsions
59
3
Particles from Outer Space
62
3
The Cosmic Rain
65
16
The Positron
66
3
The Muon
69
4
The Pion
73
1
The Kaon
74
2
The Lambda
76
2
The Xi and the Sigma
78
3
The Challenge of the Big Machines
81
26
The Whirling Device
84
4
Man-made Cosmic Rays
88
4
Glaser and the Bubble Chamber
92
4
Strong Focusing
96
2
Spark Chambers
98
3
The Supersynchrotons
101
6
The Particle Explosion
107
22
The Neutral Pion
109
1
The Neutral Cascade
110
2
Antimatter
112
3
The Resonances
115
3
The Omega-minus
118
2
Neutrinos
120
4
Quarks
124
5
Colliders and Image Chambers
129
28
Electronic Bubble Chambers
133
3
Synchroclash
136
4
New Particles, New Machines
140
3
The Antiproton Alternative
143
5
The Biggest Machine in the World
148
2
Silicon Microscopes
150
3
All Kinds of Collider
153
4
From Charm to Top
157
30
Charmed Particles
158
4
The Tau
162
2
Bottom Particles
164
4
Gluons
168
4
The W Particle
172
4
The Z Particle
176
4
Unity
180
2
The Top Quark
182
5
Future Challenges
187
20
What Happened to the Antimatter?
189
3
What is Mass?
192
1
Does Quark-Gluon Plasma Exist?
193
4
What is the Dark Matter?
197
2
Do Neutrinos have Mass?
199
4
Is there a Theory of Everything?
203
4
Futureclash
207
14
Particle Factories
209
3
Neutrinos-Going to all Lengths!
212
2
Particle Astronomy
214
3
Cosmic Record-breakers
217
4
Particles at Work
221
9
Proton Detectives and Neutron Special Agents
222
1
The Reality of Antimatter
223
1
Accelerators at Work
224
2
Pixels in Medicine
226
2
The Final Analysis
228
2
Table of Particles
230
4
Further Reading and Acknowledgements
234
1
Picture Credits
235
2
Index
237