From Current Algebra to Quantum Chromodynamics - Tian Yu Cao

From Current Algebra to Quantum Chromodynamics

A Case for Structural Realism

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Buch | Hardcover
318 Seiten
2010
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-88933-9 (ISBN)
98,50 inkl. MwSt
Addressing a range of complex physical, philosophical and historiographical issues in detail, this book examines the conceptual steps that were crucial to the rise of quantum chromodynamics. It will interest graduate students and researchers in physics and in the history and philosophy of science.
The advent of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) in the early 1970s was one of the most important events in twentieth-century science. This book examines the conceptual steps that were crucial to the rise of QCD, placing them in historical context against the background of debates that were ongoing between the bootstrap approach and composite modeling, and between mathematical and realistic conceptions of quarks. It explains the origins of QCD in current algebra and its development through high-energy experiments, model-building, mathematical analysis and conceptual synthesis. Addressing a range of complex physical, philosophical and historiographical issues in detail, this book will interest graduate students and researchers in physics and in the history and philosophy of science.

Tian Yu Cao is the author of Conceptual Developments of 20th Century Field Theories (1997) and the editor of Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Field Theory (1999), also published by Cambridge University Press.

1. Introduction; 2. The rise of current algebra (CA); 3. Sum rules; 4. Saturation and closure; 5. Scaling; 6. Theorizations of scaling; 7. The advent of quantum chromodynamics (QCD); 8. Early justifications and explorations; 9. Structural realism and the construction of QCD; 10. Historiographical issues in the CA-QCD narrative.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 14.10.2010
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 253 mm
Gewicht 780 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Hochenergiephysik / Teilchenphysik
ISBN-10 0-521-88933-2 / 0521889332
ISBN-13 978-0-521-88933-9 / 9780521889339
Zustand Neuware
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