50 YEARS OF QUARKS

by Harald Fritzsch (Editor), Murray Gell-mann (Editor)

Overview

'Harald Fritzsch and Murray Gell-Mann, the two fathers of quantum chromodynamics, look back at the events that led to the discovery, and eventually acceptance, of quarks as constituent particles ... it is always worthwhile to reminisce about those times when theoretical physicists were truly eclectic, these stories are the testimony of a very active era, in which theoretical and experimental discoveries rapidly chased one another ... Of central importance now is the understanding of the composition of our universe, the dark matter and dark energy, the hierarchy of masses and forces, and a consistent quantum framework of unification of all forces of nature, including gravity. The closing contributions of the book put this venture in the context of today's high-energy physics programme, and make a connection to the most popular ideas in high-energy physics today, including supersymmetry, unification and string theory.'CERN CourierToday it is known that the atomic nuclei are composed of smaller constituents, the quarks. A quark is always bound with two other quarks, forming a baryon or with an antiquark, forming a meson. The quark model was first postulated in 1964 by Murray Gell-Mann — who coined the name “quark” from James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake — and by George Zweig, who then worked at CERN. In the present theory of strong interactions — Quantum Chromodynamics proposed by H Fritzsch and Gell-Mann in 1972 — the forces that bind the quarks together are due to the exchange of eight gluons.On the 50th anniversary of the quark model, this invaluable volume looks back at the developments and achievements in the elementary particle physics that eventuated from that beautiful model. Written by an international team of distinguished physicists, each of whom have made major developments in the field, the volume provides an essential overview of the present state to the academics and researchers.

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ISBN-13:	9789814618120
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/11/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	516
File size:	23 MB
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Table of Contents

Preface H. Fritzsch v

A Schematic Model of Baryons and Mesons M. Gell-Mann 1

Quarks M. Gell-Mann 5

Concrete Quarks G. Zweig 25

On the Way from Sakatons to Quarks L. B. Okun 57

My Life with Quarks S. L. Glashow 95

Quarks and the Bootstrap Era D. Horn 105

From Symmetries to Quarks and Beyond S. Meshkov 115

How I Got to Work with Feynman on the Covariant Quark Model F. Ravndal 127

What is a Quark? G. L. Kane M. J. Perry 149

Insights and Puzzles in Particle Physics H. Leutwyler 163

Quarks and QCD H. Fritzsch 181

The Discovery of Gluon J. Ellis 189

Discovery of the Gluon S. L. Wu 199

The Parton Model and Its Applications T. M. Yan S. D. Drell 227

From Old Symmetries to New Symmetries: Quark, Leptons and B-L R. N. Mohapatra 245

Quark Mass Hierarchy and Flavor Mixing Puzzles Z.-Z. Xing 265

Analytical Detennination of the QCD Quark Masses C. Dominquez 287

CP Violation in Six Quark Scheme - Legacy of Sakata Model M. Kobayashi 315

The Constituent Quark Model - Nowadays W. Plessas 325

From ω to ω_b, Doubly Heavy Baryons and Exotics M. Karliner 345

Quark Elastic Scattering as a Source of High Transverse Momentum Mesons R. Field 367

Exclusive Processes and the Fundamental Structure of Hadrons S. J. Brodsky 381

Quark-Gluon Soup - The Perfectly Liquid Phase of QCD U. Heinz 413

Quarks and Anomalies R. J. Crewther 435

Lessons from Supersymmetry: "Instead-of-Confinement" Mechanism M. Shifman A. Yung 453

Quarks and a Unified Theory of Nature Fundamental Forces I. Antoniadis 473

SU(8) Family Unification with Boson-Fermion Balance S. L. Adler 487