FACTS AND MYSTERIES IN ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS(REVISED EDITION)

Book ID/图书代码： 14600018C00011

English Summary/英文概要： This book provides a comprehensive overview of modern particle physics accessible to anyone with a true passion for wanting to know how the universe works. We are introduced to the known particles of the world we live in. An elegant explanation of quantum mechanics and relativity paves the way for an understanding of the laws that govern particle physics. These laws are put into action in the world of accelerators, colliders and detectors found at institutions such as CERN and Fermilab that are in the forefront of technical innovation. Real world and theory meet using Feynman diagrams to solve the problems of infinities and deduce the need for the Higgs boson.Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics offers an incredible insight from an eyewitness and participant in some of the greatest discoveries in 20th century science. From Einstein’s theory of relativity to the elusive Higgs particle, this book will fascinate and educate anyone interested in the world of quarks, leptons and gauge theories.This book also contains many thumbnail sketches of particle physics personalities, including contemporaries as seen through the eyes of the author. Illustrated with pictures, these candid sketches present rare, perceptive views of the characters that populate the field.The Chapter on Particle Theory, in a pre-publication, was termed "superbly lucid" by David Miller in Nature (Vol. 396, 17 Dec. 1998, p. 642).

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作者马丁努斯•韦尔特曼，著名荷兰理论物理学家，密歇根大学退休教授，1999年诺贝尔物理学奖得主；*本书全面介绍了自20世纪以来粒子物理领域所有的重要理论和发现。修订版在原版的基础上，加入了粒子物理领域的最新发现和进展，例如希格斯波色子的发现；*作为粒子物理领域最经典、最畅销的教材，所有物理学研究人员、学生乃至对粒子物理感兴趣的学者均是本书的受众。

Awards/获奖情况：.,." readers, from the merely curious to the expert in the field of modern particle physics, should read this book ..."

About the Author/作者介绍： Martinus Veltman, born in 1931 in Waalwijk, the Netherlands, studied at the University of Utrecht. He started as a fellow at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, and later became Professor of Theoretical Physics in Utrecht. Together with his then student ’t Hooft he developed the mathematical implementation of gauge theories. In 1977 he deduced an equation that allowed a prediction of the mass of the top quark. In 1981 he accepted a position at the University of Michigan. After retirement he moved back to the Netherlands. The top quark with a mass as predicted was found at Fermilab in 1995, and in 1999 ’t Hooft and Veltman were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics".

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