Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Preliminaries -- 1.1 Atoms, Nuclei and Particles -- 1.2 Photons -- 1.3 Antiparticles -- 1.4 Mass and Energy -- 1.5 Events -- 1.6 Electron-Volts and Other Units -- 1.7 Particle Names and the Greek Alphabet -- 1.8 Scientific Notation -- The Standard Model -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Conservation of Energy and Charge -- 2.3 Quantum Numbers -- 2.4 Color -- 2.5 The Electron-Neutrino, Electron Number and Crossing -- 2.6 The First Family -- 2.7 Families and Forces -- 2.8 The Spin 1/2 Particles -- 2.9 The Spin 1 and 2 Particles -- 2.10 Forces and Interactions -- 2.11 Classification of Interactions -- 2.12 Electromagnetic, Weak, Strong, Higgs and Gravitational Interactions -- 2.13 Representing Interactions -- 2.14 The Origin of Quantum Numbers -- Quantum Mechanics. Mixing -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Two-Slit Experiment -- 3.3 Amplitude and Probability -- 3.4 Cabibbo and CKM Mixing -- 3.5 Neutrino Mixing -- 3.6 Particle Mixing -- Energy, Momentum and Mass-Shell -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Conservation Laws -- 4.3 Relativity -- 4.4 Relativistic Invariance -- 4.5 The Relation E = mc2 -- Detection -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Photoelectric Effect -- 5.3 Bubble Chambers -- 5.4 Spark Chambers -- 5.5 Proportional Wire Chambers -- Accelerators and Storage Rings -- 6.1 Energy Bubbles -- 6.2 Accelerators -- 6.3 Secondary Beams -- 6.4 The Machine Builders -- The CERN Neutrino Experiment -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Experimental Set-up -- 7.3 Neutrino Physics -- 7.4 The First Neutrino Experiments -- 7.5 Vector Bosons -- 7.6 Missed Opportunities -- 7.7 Epilogue -- The Particle Zoo -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Bound States -- 8.3 The Structure of Quark Bound States -- 8.4 Spin of a Bound State -- 8.5 Mesons -- 8.6 Baryons -- 8.7 Exotics -- 8.8 Discovering Quarks -- 8.9 Triplets versus Doublets and Lepton-Quark Symmetry -- Particle Theory.

9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Feynman Rules -- 9.3 Infinities -- 9.4 Perturbation Theory -- 9.5 Renormalizability -- 9.6 Weak Interactions -- 9.7 Compton Scattering -- 9.8 Neutral Vector Bosons -- 9.9 Charmed Quarks -- 9.10 The Higgs Particle -- 9.11 General Higgs Couplings -- 9.12 Speculations -- 9.13 ρ -Parameter -- Finding the Higgs -- Quantum Chromodynamics -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Confinement -- 11.3 Asymptotic Freedom -- 11.4 Scaling -- Epilogue -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- Photo Credits.