P (cont.)
Positron, 10, 12
Propagator, 63, 70
Proper time, 32–34
Proportional chamber, 107
Proton, 6–10, 76
decay, 154, 159
mass, 6, 80, 148
Pulsar, 51
Q
Quantum chromodynamics, 73
Quantum correction, 140
Quantum electrodynamics, 60–67
Quantum field theory, 49, 63, 66, 102, 125,
143
Quantum gravity, 160, 164
Quantum mechanics, 9, 62, 64, 70, 102
Quark, 10, 12, 69, 73–80
b-, bottom-, 78
c-, charm-, 78
d-, down-, 82
s-, strange-, 78
t-, top-, 78
u-, up-, 82
R
Radioactivity, 7–10
Reines, F., 8
Renormalizability, 145
Renormalization group equation, 147–148
Resolving power, 11, 49
Richter, B., 113
Riess, A., 23
R ratio, 111
Rubbia, C., 85
Rutherford cross section, 59
Rutherford, E., 11, 59
Rydberg energy, 71
S
Salam, A., 134
Scale factor, 16
Scattering
elastic, 102
inelastic, 102
Scattering angle, 58–59, 61, 63
Schmidt, B., 23
Schwartz, M., 83
Schwarzschild radius, 42
Schwinger, J., 145
SLAC, 113
Slepton, 156–157
Smoot, G.F., 21
Speed of light, 37, 47
Spin, 68–69, 81
Spontaneous symmetry breaking, 123, 126
SPS storage ring, 85
Squark, 156–158
Steinberger, J., 83
Storage ring, 101
String theory, 162–164, 167–172
bosonic, 163, 165
closed, 162, 167–169
open, 162, 164, 167–170
super-, 163, 167
Supergravity theory, 157
Supersymmetry, 155–160
Symmetry, 121
Synchrotron radiation, 105
T
TAMA, 53
Taylor, J.H., 51
Taylor, R.R., 11
Tevatron, 104, 115
’t Hooft, G., 88
Ting, S., 113
Tomonaga, S.-I., 145
Trigger, 109
U
UA1 detector, 85
Unitarity, 125–126
Universe
expansion, 3, 15, 17
history, 3, 19–20
temperature, 19–20
V
van der Meer, S., 85
van der Waals forces, 5, 10
Vector boson fusion, 116
Vector field, 45, 55, 69, 127
Veltman, M.J.G., 88
Vertex, vertices, 63, 66, 89
Virgo, 53
Virtual particle, 62–63
W
Warped space-time, 17
wavelength, 47–49
188 Index