From Current Algebra to Quantum Chromodynamics: A Case for Structural Realism - Couverture rigide

Cao, Tian Yu

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521889332 ISBN 13 : 9780521889339

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521889332
• ISBN 13: 9780521889339
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 318
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