Hans Günter Dosch Book order

Beyond the world of atoms, at scales smaller than the smallest nuclei, a new world comes into view, populated by an array of colorful elementary particles: strange and charmed quarks, muons and neutrinos, gluons and photons, and many others, all interacting in beautifully intricate patterns. Beyond the Nanoworld tells the story of how this new realm was discovered. From the first discoveries of subatomic structure to the present-day hunt for the Higgs particle, the reader is invited to follow the twin branches of experimental and theoretical research as they wind through the twentieth century, culminating in the most successful physical theory of all time: the standard model of particle physics.

Offers a non-technical outline of the firmly based aspects of relativistic quantum field theory, such as the very successful description of subnuclear phenomena. This book describes particular methods, by which these different aspects have to be accessed, as distinct facets of quantum field theory.