TY - BOOK AU - Bernstein,Jeremy TI - A palette of particles SN - 9780674072510 AV - QC793.26 .B47 2013 U1 - 539.7/2 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press KW - Particles (Nuclear physics) KW - Popular works KW - fast KW - Elementarteilchenphysik KW - gnd KW - Partikelfysik KW - sao N1 - Includes index; Primary colors. The neutron ; The neutrino ; The electron and the photon -- Secondary colors. The pion and the muon ; The antiparticle ; Strange particles ; The quark -- Pastels. The Higgs boson ; Neutrino cosmology ; Squarks, tachyons, and the graviton -- L'envoi -- Appendix 1. Accelerators and detectors -- Appendix 2. Grand Unification -- Appendix 3. Neutrino oscillations N2 - A guide to high-energy physics from the early twentieth century to the present, including such highlights as Ernest Rutherford's 1911 explanation of the nucleus, the newly discovered Higgs boson, and anecdotes about famous physicists ER -