The Infinity Puzzle


Book Description

"Many mysteries of the atom have came unraveled, but one remains intractable- what Frank Close calls the 'Infinity puzzle'. The problem was simple to describe. Although clearly very powerful, quantum field theory ... was making one utterly ridiculous prediction: that certain events had an infinite probability of occurring. ... The Infinity Puzzle charts the birth and life of the idea, and the scientists, ... who realized it. Based on numerous firsthand interviews and extensive research, this book captures an era of great mystery and greater discovery. Even if the Higgs boson is never found, renormalization- the pursuit of an orderly universe- has led to one of the richest and most productive intellectual periods in human history."--Book jacket.




The Infinity Puzzle


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Forty years ago, three physicists - Peter Higgs, Gerard 't Hooft, and James Bjorken - made the spectacular breakthroughs that led to the world's largest experiment, CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Against a backdrop of high politics and billion dollar budgets, this is the story of their work, the quest for the Higgs boson, and its eventual discovery.




Mortal Jigsaw Puzzle


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The Mortal Jigsaw puzzle follows the struggles of a heroic urban vice principal, as he attempts to control a large high school teetering on the verge of chaos. During the course of an infamous day known as Fat Lip Friday, the ghetto principal tries valiantly to keep control of his school in the midst of a full blown gang war. Immersed in an environment replete with urban music, violence, verbiage, and dress, the reader is bombarded with shocking images of life in the modern hood. As the visceral educational conflagration unfolds, the protagonist, Jose Perez, unexpectedly catches glimpses of a diabolical conspiracy of which street gangs are just a small part. Thanks to his keen senses, Mr. Perez slowly collects the pieces to a profoundly disturbing global puzzle comprised of codes, lyrics, art, and symbols of Egyptian, Masonic, and satanic origin. While attempting to place the gratuitous carnage and depravity of the inner city into perspective, Mr. Perez accidentally stumbles upon an interdisciplinary mind control plan which draws upon religion, politics, economics, psychology, marketing, history, and the occult. Alarmed by his findings, Mr. Perez warns his community of their pending doom, only to be hunted down by the very debt cattle whom he tries to save from oblivion. In the end, both his community and his nation are condemned to fall under this nefarious plot, as this educators quixotic mission abruptly ends with an ominous knock on his front door.




Higgs Puzzle, The: What Can We Learn From Lep2, Lhc, Nlc, And Fmc? - Proceedings Of The 1996 Ringberg Workshop


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Despite the great success of the standard model of electroweak and strong interactions to describe the phenomena observed in high energy physics experiments, the mechanism by which the elementary particles are endowed with their masses is yet to be unraveled. Does nature choose the Higgs mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking as predicted by the standard model, or do we need some alternative explanation? The purpose of the workshop is to capture new trends and ideas in this exciting area of fundamental physics, and to explore the potential of recent (LEPI), present (HERA, LEPII, SLC, Tevatron), and future (FMC, LHC, NLC) colliding-beam experiments to shed light on the Higgs puzzle.




Puzzles On The Electroweak Scale - Proceedings Of The 14th International Warsaw Meeting On Elementary Particle Physics


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The proceedings contains reviews and short communications on the following topics: status of the standard model, rare decays and CP violation, heavy quark physics, neutrino physics, Higgs bosons and electroweak breaking, nonperturbative effects in electroweak interactions, physics beyond the standard models, quantum chromodynamics and strong interactions.




Fundamental Interactions


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This book contains pedagogical lectures on both theoretical and experimental particle physics, cosmology, and atomic trap physics. Numerous additional contributions provide up-to-date information on new experimental results from accelerators, underground laboratories, and nuclear astrophysics. This combination of pedagogical talks and topical short discussions presents a comprehensive amount of information and latest developments to researchers. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: New Physics and the LHC (9,214 KB). Contents: New Physics and the LHC (G Altarelli); Very High Energy Cosmic Rays: Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory (C E Covault); Neutrinos at Lake Louise (S Davidson); Physics Impact of the Tevatron (D C O''Neil); Cosmology and the LHC (V Rubakov); CMK Angle Measurements from BABAR (J M Anderson); An Overview of Top Quark Analyses from the CMS Collaboration (J Andrea); Heavy Quark Production at HERA and Heavy Quark Contributions to the Proton Structure Function (D Bartsch); ATLAS Commissioning and Physics with Early Data (P J Bell); Search for Heavy Stable Charged Particles at CMS (J Chen); A High-Sensitivity Search for Charged Lepton Flavor Violation at Fermilab (E C Dukes); Prospects for CP Violation Studies at LHCb (V V Gligorov); Measurements of a 3 () at Belle (Y Horii); High P T Jets and Photons at Dy (Z Hubacek); SUSY Search at ATLAS (Y Kataoka); Neutrino Physics with the IceCube Detector (J Kirkyluk); Determination of the Strong Phase in D 0 OaAE K + C - Using Quantum-Correlated Measurements (A Lincoln); Results on Top Quark Physics at Dy (Y Peters); Quarkonium Production and Polarisation with Early Data at ATLAS (D D Price); and other papers. Readership: Graduate students, researchers and academics in high energy physics (HEP), astrophysics and atomic physics."




The Infinity Puzzle


Book Description

Forty years ago, three physicists - Peter Higgs, Gerard 't Hooft, and James Bjorken - made the spectacular breakthroughs that led to the world's largest experiment, CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Against a backdrop of high politics and billion dollar budgets, this is the story of their work, the quest for the Higgs boson, and its eventual discovery.




Particle Physics and Cosmology


Book Description

This book contains the lecture courses conducted at the School of the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute (TASI, Colorado, USA) on Elementary Particle Physics in 2002. In this School, three series of lectures are presented in parallel in the area of phenomenology, TeV-scale physics, and astroparticles physics. The phenomenology lecture series covered a broad spectrum of standard research techniques used to interpret present day and future collider data. The TeV-scale physics lecture series focused on modern speculations about physics beyond the Standard Model, with an emphasis on supersymmetry and extra-dimensional theories. The lecture series on astroparticle physics treated recent developments in theories of dark matter and dark energy, the cosmic microwave background, and prospects for the upcoming era of gravitational wave astronomy.




XX International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies


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This important book covers topics that are of major interest to the high energy physics community, including the most recent results from flavour factories, dark matter and neutrino physics. In addition, it considers future high energy machines.




New Trends In Hera Physics - Proceedings Of The Ringberg Workshop


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This volume gathers the latest experimental results from HERA and captures new trends in HERA phenomenology. The articles are by experts for experts, but are suitable for a mixed readership of both theoreticians and experimentalists. H1 members cover ZEUS results and vice versa. The book points out existing discrepancies between experimental data and theoretical predictions and identifies projects to be undertaken in the future.