Read article 'The physicist’s guide to the universe'
Sometimes referred to as the bible of particle physics, during the last 60 years the Review of Particle Physics has become the number-one reference in the field.
Read article 'Birth of a symmetry'
Weinberg’s paper “A Model of Leptons”, published in Physical Review Letters (PRL) on 20 November 1967, determined the direction of high-energy particle physics through the final decades of the 2...
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Radioactivity and Radiation: What They Are, What They Do, and How to Harness Them By Claus Grupen and Mark Rodgers Springer International Publishing Have you ever thought that batteries capable of pro...
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An Introduction to Gauge Theories By N Cabibbo, L Maiani and O Benhar CRC Press There is always great excitement among the academic community when a new book by renowned scientists is published. Writt...
Read article 'A quarter century of DIS workshops'
Deep Inelastic Scattering 2017 (DIS17) demonstrates how deep inelastic scattering (DIS) and related topics permeate most aspects of high-energy physics
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Anomaly! Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab By Tommaso Dorigo World Scientific Also available at the CERN bookshop Anomaly! is a captivating story of supposed discoveries tha...
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Trick or Truth? The Mysterious Connection Between Physics and Mathematics By Anthony Aguirre, Brendan Foster, Zeeya Merali (eds) Springer One of the most intriguing works in the philosophy of science ...
Read article 'The founding of Fermilab'
In 1960, two high-energy physics laboratories were competing for scientific discoveries. The first was Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island in New York, US, with its 33 GeV Alternating Grad...
Read article 'A selection of Fermilab’s greatest hits'
Timeline showing Fermilab’s major experimental achievements
Read article 'Revisiting the b revolution'
Scientists summoned from all parts of Fermilab had gathered in the auditorium on the afternoon of 30 June 1977. Murmurs of speculation ran through the crowd about the reason for the hastily scheduled ...
