From Ultra Rays to Astroparticles
A Historical Introduction to Astroparticle Physics
Editors: Falkenburg, Brigitte, Rhode, Wolfgang (Eds.)
Free Preview- Provides a unique historical introduction to astroparticle physics to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the cosmic ray discovery
- Covers the roots and development of the exciting field of astroparticle physics
- Written by a multidiciplinary group of experts in the field
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- About this book
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The scope of the book is to give an overview of the history of astroparticle physics, starting with the discovery of cosmic rays (Victor Hess, 1912) and its background (X-ray, radioactivity).
The book focusses on the ways in which physics changes in the course of this history. The following changes run parallel, overlap, and/or interact:
- Discovery of effects like X-rays, radioactivity, cosmic rays, new particles but also progress through non-discoveries (monopoles) etc.
- The change of the description of nature in physics, as consequence of new theoretical questions at the beginning of the 20th century, giving rise to quantum physics, relativity, etc.
- The change of experimental methods, cooperations, disciplinary divisions.
With regard to the latter change, a main topic of the book is to make the specific multi-diciplinary features of astroparticle physics clear. - Reviews
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From the reviews:
“This book is a collection of ten articles written by expert contributors who describe current work in a technological and historical context. … Each article gives a thorough account and includes many references for further study. … This is an excellent resource for anyone interested in the field and a useful supplement to lecture courses. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals.” (M. Dickinson, Choice, Vol. 50 (11), July, 2013)
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-16
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From the Discovery of Radioactivity to the First Accelerator Experiments
Pages 17-47
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Development of Cosmology: From a Static Universe to Accelerated Expansion
Pages 49-70
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Evolution of Astrophysics: Stars, Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Particle Acceleration
Pages 71-102
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Development of Ultra High-Energy Cosmic Ray Research
Pages 103-141
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- From Ultra Rays to Astroparticles
- Book Subtitle
- A Historical Introduction to Astroparticle Physics
- Editors
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- Brigitte Falkenburg
- Wolfgang Rhode
- Copyright
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-007-5422-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-007-5422-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-5421-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-9455-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 346
- Topics
