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Tables of Contents for Remnants of the Fall
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
DEAR READER
xiii
INTRODUCTION
xvii
OVERTURE
xix
Part I THE JOURNEY BEGINS
1
90
Chapter 1 About Questions and Answers
3
5
Lightbulb Interlude
7
1
Chapter 2 The Matter We Know-Properties and Principles
8
13
1. The Science of Elementary Particles
8
3
2. General Properties of Particles- A Preliminary Look
11
6
3. Particles in Motion
17
4
Chapter 3 The Relativity of Space and Time
21
13
1. The Principle
23
3
2. Electromagnetic Waves
26
1
3. Space and Time
27
5
4. Energy and Momentum
32
2
Interlude The "Illions" and the "Illionths"
34
3
Chapter 4 The Quantum Properties of Nature-Part One
37
16
1. Classical Particles and Waves
39
4
2. Quantum Objects and Indeterminacy
43
10
Chapter 5 The Quantum Properties of Nature-Part Two
53
14
1. Quantum Particles and Uncertainties
55
6
2. Quantization
61
3
3. Quantum Fields
64
3
Chapter 6 Quantum Mechanical Reality
67
10
1. Battle of the Giants
67
1
2. The Triumph of Quantum Mechanics
68
5
3. Quantum Mechanics and Measurement
73
4
Chapter 7 The Particles of Matter
77
8
1. Seeking the Structure of Protons and Neutrons
79
1
2. Strongly Interacting Matter Particles - The Hadrons
80
1
3. Matter Particles with no Strong Interactions The Leptons
81
4
Chapter 8 The Basic Interactions
85
6
1. Introducing the Interactions
85
2
2. The Gauge Bosons of the Interactions
87
3
3. The "Reach" or Range of the Interactions
90
1
Part II PARTICLE SYMMETRIES
91
48
Chapter 9 Spacetime Symmetries
93
14
1. Symmetry at an Art Exhibit
95
7
2. Generators and Conservation Laws
102
3
3. Intertwining Rotations
105
2
About Whimsy
107
2
Chapter 10 "Internal" Symmetries-Isotopic Spin
109
8
1. Conservation Laws and Symmetry
111
1
2. Welcome to Flavor Space
112
5
Chapter 11 Particle Flavors
117
10
1. Hypercharge (Y) and the Group U(1)
119
2
2. Strangeness (S)
121
2
3. Baryon Number (B)
123
1
4. Lepton Number (L)
123
1
5. Recollections of Conserved Numbers and Associated Flavor Symmetries
124
3
Chapter 12 A Larger Flavor Symmetry-Entrance to The Land of Quarks
127
12
1. A Historical Note: The Periodic Scheme of The Elements
129
1
2. Flavor SU(3) and the Periodic Scheme of the Hadrons
129
5
3. Entering the Land of Quarks
134
5
Part III ON TO THE STANDARD MODEL AND BEYOND
139
74
Chapter 13 About Gauge Theories
141
10
1. Their "Local" Property
143
1
2. Gauge Bosons and the Interactions
144
3
3. The Ideal Vacuum and Renormalizaion
147
3
4. What Are the Gauges in the Gauge Theories?
150
1
Chapter 14 The Strong Interaction-Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)
151
16
1. The Exclusion Principle Mystery
153
4
2. Color SU(3)-The Gauge Theory of Quantum Chromodynamics
157
6
3. A New Phase of Matter
163
2
4. More Exotica
165
2
Chapter 15 The Weak Interaction-The Foot-Hills
167
14
1. Beta Decays
169
3
2. The Other Weak Interactions
172
2
3. Handedness, Time Reversal and Antimatter
174
4
4. Range, Strength and Mass
178
3
Chapter 16 The Electroweak Interaction and The Standard Model
181
10
1. Higgs Magic
183
3
2. The Glorious Gauge Theory-The Standard Model
186
5
Chapter 17 Above and Beyond
191
14
1. Neutrino Mass and "Oscillations"
193
3
2. Grand Unified Theories (GUTs)
196
4
3. The Early Universe
200
1
4. Superdreams
201
3
5. Large Extra Dimensions
204
1
6. Have We Reached Bottom?
204
1
A Reconstruction of THE ORIGIN OF THE PARTICLES
205
8
Part IV THE EXPERIMENTS-EXPLORATION AND DISCOVERY
213
36
Chapter 18 The Role of Experiments and Experimentalists
215
8
1. What is a Scientific Theory?
217
1
2. And What in the World is an Experimentalist?
217
1
3. The Importance of Confirmation of Discoveries and of Error Estimation
218
5
Chapter 19 The Experimental Connection
223
59
1. A Preliminary: Energy Units for Atomic and Subatomic Considerations
223
1
2. "Scatterings" and Decays
224
2
3. The Scattering "Cross Section"-A Direct Connection Between Theory and Experiment
226
2
4. Particle "Resonances"
228
1
5. 'Resonances" and Decay Widths
229
53
Chapter 20 Particle Accelerators and Detectors
282
1. Why Accelerate Particles?
232
1
2. Accelerator Types
233
3
3. The Basics of Particle Detection
236
6
4. Large Hybrid Detectors
242
3
5. Important Experimental Concerns
245
4
FINALE
249
6
EPILOGUE
255
4
GLOSSARY
259
22
INDEX
281