Subatomic Physics

Contents
Dedication v
Acknowledgments vii
Preface to the First Edition ix
Preface to the Third Edition xi
General Bibliography xiii
1 Background and Language 1
1.1 Orders of Magnitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.3 Special Relativity, Feynman Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.4 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
I Tools 11
2 Accelerators 13
2.1 Why Accelerators? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.2 Cross Sections and Luminosity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.3 Electrostatic Generators (Van de Graaff) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.4 Linear Accelerators (Linacs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.5 BeamOptics............................... 22
2.6 Synchrotrons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.7 Laboratory and Center-of-Momentum Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.8 Colliding Beams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.9 Superconducting Linacs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.10 Beam Storage and Cooling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
2.11 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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