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Particle Physics

Why is it interesting?

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.

From My Life As A Quant by Emanuel Derman

Layman

Recommended Books:

* 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

Student

Recommended Textbooks:

  • Introduction to Elementary Particles by D. Griffith
  • An Introductory Course of Particle Physics by P. Pal
  • Quarks & Leptons by Halzen, Martin

Researcher

The motto in this section is: the higher the level of abstraction, the better.
Common Question 1
Common Question 2

Examples

Example1
Example2:

History

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