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====== Particle Physics ====== | ====== Particle Physics ====== | ||
- | <tabbox Why is it interesting?> | ||
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- | <tabbox Layman> | ||
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- | <note tip> | ||
- | Explanations in this section should contain no formulas, but instead colloquial things like you would hear them during a coffee break or at a cocktail party. | ||
- | </note> | ||
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- | <tabbox Student> | ||
+ | <tabbox Intuitive> | ||
<blockquote> | <blockquote> | ||
- | Richard P. Feynman once saidthat doing elementary particle physics is a lot like banging two fine Swisswatches against each other and trying to figure out their workings byexamining the debris.That was the challenge. | + | Richard P. Feynman once said that doing elementary particle physics is a lot like banging two fine Swiss watches against each other and trying to figure out their workings by examining the debris. That was the challenge. |
<cite>From My Life As A Quant by Emanuel Derman</cite> | <cite>From My Life As A Quant by Emanuel Derman</cite> | ||
</blockquote> | </blockquote> | ||
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- | <tabbox Researcher> | ||
- | <note tip> | + | **Recommended Books:** |
- | The motto in this section is: //the higher the level of abstraction, the better//. | + | |
- | </note> | + | |
- | --> Common Question 1# | + | * A Zeptospace Odyssey: A Journey Into the Physics of the LHC by Gian Francesco Giudice |
+ | * The Second Creation by Crease, Mann | ||
+ | * Deep Down Things by Schumm | ||
+ | * The Particle Odyssey by Close | ||
+ | * Reminiscences: A Journey through Particle Physics by Adrian Melissinos | ||
+ | <tabbox Concrete> | ||
- | + | * http://www-pnp.physics.ox.ac.uk/~mjohn/notes/BasicsLectures.pdf | |
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- | --> Common Question 2# | + | |
+ | **Recommended Textbooks:** | ||
- | <-- | + | * Introduction to Elementary Particles by D. Griffith |
- | + | * An Introductory Course of Particle Physics by P. Pal | |
- | <tabbox Examples> | + | * Quarks & Leptons by Halzen, Martin |
+ | <tabbox Abstract> | ||
- | --> Example1# | + | <note tip> |
+ | The motto in this section is: //the higher the level of abstraction, the better//. | ||
+ | </note> | ||
- | + | <tabbox Why is it interesting?> | |
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- | --> Example2:# | + | See https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-physics-basics/particle-physics-why-do-it-and-why-do-it-that-way/ |
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- | <tabbox History> | ||
</tabbox> | </tabbox> | ||