The Rise of the Standard Model: A History of Particle Physics from 1964 to 1979

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511471094

Editors Laurie Brown, Max Dresden, Lillian Hoddeson and Michael Riordan have brought together a distinguished group of elementary particle physicists and historians of science to explore the recent history of particle physics. Based on a conference held at Stanford University, this is the third volume of a series recounting the history of particle physics and offers the most up-to-date account of the rise of the Standard Model, which explains the microstructure of the world in terms of quarks and leptons and their interactions. Major contributors include Steven Weinberg, Murray Gell-Mann, Michael Redhead, Silvan Schweber, Leon Lederman and John Heilbron. The wide-ranging articles explore the detailed scientific experiments, the institutional settings in which they took place, and the ways in which the many details of the puzzle fit together to account for the Standard Model.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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Contents
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Contributors
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Editors' Acknowledgments
pp xiii-xv
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Photographs of the Symposium
pp xvi-xxi
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Abbreviations and Acronyms
pp xxii-xxv
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Mathematical Notation
pp xxvi-xxx
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Part One - Introduction
pp 1-2
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1 - The Rise of the Standard Model: 1964–1979
pp 3-35
- By Laurie M. Brown, Born 1923, New York City; Ph.D. (physics), Cornell University, 1951; theoretical physics and history of physics; Northwestern University., Michael Riordan, Born 1946, Springfield, Mass.; Ph.D. (physics), MIT, 1973; experimental physics, history of physics, and science writing; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and University of California, Santa Cruz., Max Dresden, Born 1918, Amsterdam; Ph.D. (physics), University of Michigan, 1946; theoretical physics and history of physics; State University of New York at Stony Brook and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center., Lillian Hoddeson, Born 1940, New York City; Ph.D. (physics), Columbia University, 1966; history of science and technology; University of Illinois and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
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2 - Changing Attitudes and the Standard Model
pp 36-44
- By Steven Weinberg, Born New York City, 1933; Ph.D., 1957 (physics), Princeton University; Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin; Nobel Prize in Physics, 1979; high-energy physics (theory) and cosmology.
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3 - Two Previous Standard Models
pp 45-54
- By J. L. Heilbron, Born San Francisco, California, 1934; Ph.D., 1964 (history of science), University of California at Berkeley; Professor of History and the History of Science, and Vice-Chancellor, University of California at Berkeley.
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Part Two - Quarks and Leptons
pp 55-56
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4 - From the Psi to Charmed Mesons: Three Years with the SLAC–LBL Detector at SPEAR
pp 57-78
- By Gerson Goldhaber, Born Chemnitz, Germany, 1924; Ph.D., 1950 (physics), University of Wisconsin; Professor in the Graduate School, Physics Department and at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Center for Particle Astrophysics, University of California at Berkeley; high-energy physics (experimental).
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5 - The Discovery of the Tau Lepton
pp 79-100
- By Martin Perl, Born Brooklyn, New York, 1927; Ph.D., 1955 (physics), Columbia University; Professor of Physics at Stanford University; Wolf Prize, 1982; Nobel Prize in Physics, 1995; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; high-energy physics (experimental).
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6 - The Discovery of the Upsilon, Bottom Quark, and B Mesons
pp 101-113
- By Leon M. Lederman, Born New York City, 1922; Ph.D., 1951 (physics), Columbia University; Pritzker Professor of Physics at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago; Director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory 1979–89; Wolf Prize, 1982; Nobel Prize in Physics, 1988; high-energy physics (experimental).
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7 - The Discovery of CP Violation
pp 114-136
- By James Cronin, Born Chicago, Illinois, 1931; Ph.D., 1955 (physics), University of Chicago; Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago; Nobel Prize in Physics, 1980; high-energy physics (experimental).
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8 - Flavor Mixing and CP Violation
pp 137-142
- By Makoto Kobayashi, Born Nagoya, Japan, 1944; Ph.D., 1972 (physics), Nagoya University; Professor at KEK National Laboratory for High Energy Physics, Tsukuba, Japan; high-energy physics (theory).
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Part Three - Toward Gauge Theories
pp 143-144
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9 - The Path to Renormalizability
pp 145-178
- By Martinus Veltman, Born Waalwijk, The Netherlands, 1931; Ph.D., 1963 (physics), University of Utrecht; Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan; high-energy physics (theory).
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10 - Renormalization of Gauge Theories
pp 179-198
- By Gerard 'T Hooft, Born Den Helder, The Netherlands, 1946; Ph.D., 1972 (physics), University of Utrecht; Professor of Physics at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Utrecht; high-energy physics (theory).
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11 - Asymptotic Freedom and the Emergence of QCD
pp 199-232
- By David Gross, Born Washington, D.C., 1941; Ph.D., 1966 (physics), University of California at Berkeley; Professor of Physics at Princeton University; high-energy physics (theory).
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12 - Quark Confinement
pp 233-242
- By Leonard Susskind, Born New York City, 1940; Ph.D., 1965 (physics), Cornell University; Professor of Physics at Stanford University; high-energy physics (theory).
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13 - A View from the Island
pp 243-249
- By Alexander Polyakov, Born Moscow, 1945; Ph.D., 1969 (physics), Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics; Professor of Physics at Princeton University; high-energy physics (theory).
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14 - On the Early Days of the Renormalization Group
pp 250-258
- By Dmitrij V. Shirkov, Born Moscow, USSR, 1928; Ph.D. 1953 (theoretical physics), Kurchatov Institute; D. Sc., 1958 (theoretical and mathematical physics), Steklov Mathematical Institute; Director, Bogoliubov Theoretical Laboratory, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia; high-energy physics (theory and mathematical physics).
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Part Four - Accelerators, Detectors, and Laboratories
pp 259-260
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15 - The Rise of Colliding Beams
pp 261-284
- By Burton Richter, Born Brooklyn, New York, 1931; Ph.D., 1956 (physics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Director, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; Nobel Prize in Physics, 1976; high-energy physics (experimental) and particle accelerators.
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16 - The CERN Intersecting Storage Rings: The Leap into the Hadron Collider Era
pp 285-298
- By Kjell Johnsen, Born Meland, Norway, 1921; Ph.D., 1954 (physics), Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim; retired from CERN; accelerator physics.
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17 - Development of Large Detectors for Colliding-Beam Experiments
pp 299-307
- By Roy Schwitters, Born Seattle, Washington, 1944; Ph.D., 1971 (physics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Professor of Physics, University of Texas at Austin; high-energy physics (experimental).
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18 - Pure and Hybrid Detectors: Mark I and the Psi
pp 308-337
- By Peter Galison, Born New York City, 1955; Ph.D., 1983 (physics and history of science), Harvard University; Mallinckrodt Professor of History of Science and of Physics, Harvard University; history of science, high-energy physics (theory).
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19 - Building Fermilab: A User's Paradise
pp 338-363
- By Robert R. Wilson, Born Frontier, Wyoming, 1914; Ph.D., 1940 (physics), University of California at Berkeley; first Director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Professor Emeritus, Cornell University; high-energy physics (experimental)., Adrienne Kolb, Born New Orleans, Louisiana, 1950; B.A., 1972 (history) University of New Orleans; Fermilab Archivist.
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