Constructing Quarks

A Sociological History of Particle Physics

By: Andrew Pickering

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Paperback | 1 December 1999 | Edition Number 1

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Widely regarded as a classic in its field, Constructing Quarks recounts the history of the post-war conceptual development of elementary-particle physics. Inviting a reappraisal of the status of scientific knowledge, Andrew Pickering suggests that scientists are not mere passive observers and reporters of nature. Rather they are social beings as well as active constructors of natural phenomena who engage in both experimental and theoretical practice.

"A prodigious piece of scholarship that I can heartily recommend."-Michael Riordan, New Scientist

"An admirable history. . . . Detailed and so accurate."-Hugh N. Pendleton, Physics Today

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Preface
Introduction, the Prehistory of HEP and its Material Constraints
Introduction
Men and Machines
The HEP Community
HEP Experiment: Basics
Accelerator Chronology
The Old Physics: HEP, 1945-64
The Population Explosion
Conservation Laws and Quantum Numbers: From Spin to the Eightfold Way
Quantum Field Theory
The S-Matrix
Constructing Quarks and Founding the New Physics: HEP, 1964-74
The Quark Model
The Genesis of Quarks
The Constituent Quark Model
Quarks and Current Algebra
The Reality of Quarks
Scaling, Hard Scattering and the Quark-Parton Model
Scaling at SLAC
The Parton Model
Partons, Quarks and Electron Scattering
Neutrino Physics
Lepton-Pair Production, Electron-Positron Annihilation and Hadronic Hard Scattering
Gauge Theory, Electroweak Unification and the Weak Neutral Current
Yang-Mills Gauge Theory
Electroweak Unification and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
The Renormalisation of Gauge Theory
Electroweak Models and the Discovery of the Weak Neutral Current
Neutral Currents and Neutron Background
Quantum Chromodynamics: A Gauge Theory of the Strong Interactions
From Scale Invariance to Asymptotic Freedom
Quantum Chronodynamics
The Failings of QCD
HEP in 1974: The State of Play
Gauge Theory—Reprise
The End of an Era
Three Transitional Biographies
Establishing the New Physics: The November Revolution and Beyond
Charm: The Lever that Turned the World
The November Revolution
The R-crisis
The New Particles
Charm
A New World
The Standard Model of Electroweak Interactions
More New Quarks and Leptons
The Slaying of Mutants
The Standard Model Established: Unification, Social and Conceptual
QCD in Practice
Phenomenological QCD—An Overview
QCD and Spectroscopy
QCD and Hard Scattering
Gauge Theory and Experiment: 1970-90
Experimental Trends
Theory Incarnate
Visions
Grand Unification
GUTs and HEP
GUTs and Cosmology
GUTs and Proton Decay
Gauge Theory Supreme
Producing a World
The Dynamics of Practice
Traditions and Symbiosis
Incommensurability
Bibliography
Index
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