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Prestigious Discoveries at CERN

1973 Neutral Currents 1983 W & Z Bosons

  • In a spectacular meeting CERN celebrated its most important findings.

  • The articles written on that occasion address not only the past but also the future of particle physics

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-7
  2. The making of the Standard Model

    • Steven Weinberg
    Pages 9-23
  3. The discovery of neutral currents

    • Dieter Haidt
    Pages 41-54
  4. W & Z physics at LEP

    • Peter Zerwas
    Pages 73-88
  5. Physics at the LHC

    • John Ellis
    Pages 89-100
  6. Particle detectors and society

    • Georges Charpak
    Pages 135-145
  7. The future for CERN

    • Luciano Maiani
    Pages 147-155
  8. Panel discussion on the future of particle physics chaired by Carlo Rubbia

    • Roger Cashmore, Luciano Maiani, Jean-Pierre Revol
    Pages 157-180
  9. Additional contributions by Sheldon Lee Glashow, Donald H. Perkins, and Antonino Pullia

    • Sheldon Lee Glashow, Donald H. Perkins, Antonino Pullia
    Pages 181-186
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 187-190

About this book

The discoveries of neutral currents and of the W and Z bosons marked a watershed in the history of CERN. They established the validity of the electroweak theory and convinced physicists of the importance of renormalizable non-Abelian gauge theories of fundamental interactions. The articles collected in this book have been written by distinguished physicists who contributed in a crucial way to these developments. The book provides a historical account of those discoveries and of the construction and testing of the Standard Model. It also contains a discussion of the future of particle physics and gives an updated status of the LHC and its detectors currently being built at CERN. The book addresses those readers interested in particle physics including the educated public.

Editors and Affiliations

  • CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

    Roger Cashmore, Luciano Maiani, Jean-Pierre Revol

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