Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Early History -- First Musings -- Better Living through Chemistry -- May the Force Be with You -- 2. The Path to Knowledge (History of Particle Physics) -- Cathode Rays -- X-Rays -- Radioactivity -- The Discovery of the Electron -- The Nature of the Atom -- The Nature of the Nucleus -- Quantum Mechanics: An Intermission -- Beta Radiation and the Neutrino -- More Forces -- Something to Make Your Head Spin -- Cosmic Rays: Particles from the Heavens -- The Antimatter Electron -- Who Ordered That? -- Strange "V" Particles -- Neutrinos Get Even More Complicated -- 3. Quarks and Leptons -- Quarks and Mesons -- Quarks and Baryons -- A Colorful World -- First Evidence for Quarks -- Discovery of More Quarks and Leptons -- Discovery of the Top Quark -- Return of the Leptons -- 4. Forces: What Holds It All Together -- Gravity -- Electromagnetism -- The Strong Force -- The Weak Force -- Forces and Feynman Diagrams -- Feynman Diagrams and the Strong Force -- Jets: The Subatomic Shotgun -- Proton Structure: The Miniature Lightning Storm -- Feynman Diagrams and the Weak Force -- Discovery of the Top Quark -- 5. Hunting for the Higgs -- Mass, Parity and Infinities -- The Higgs Solution -- Higgs by Analogy I -- Higgs the Way Scientists Think -- Higgs by Analogy II -- Desperately Seeking Higgs -- The Current Search Story -- 6. Accelerators and Detectors: Tools of the Trade -- A Drive through Fermilab -- Not All Accelerators Are in Cars -- Not All Rings Are for Engagements -- Targets and Beam Types -- Enter Antimatter -- Accelerators of the World -- Particle Detectors: The World's Biggest Cameras -- Ionization and Tracking -- Calorimeters: Measuring Energy -- One Detector: Many Technologies -- Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous -- Water Is for More Than Just Drinking -- 7. Near Term Mysteries.

Mystery #1: Neutrinos from the Sun -- Oh Where, Oh Where, Have My Neutrinos Gone? -- Neutrinos from Thin Air -- Super-K Finds the Truth -- Why Oscillations? -- Neutrino Detectors, Current Status -- Mystery #2: Where's the Antimatter? -- Sakharov's Three Conditions -- Charge, Parity and All That -- The Death of Weak Parity Conservation -- Parity Symmetry is Dead! Long Live CP! -- 8. Exotic Physics (The Next Frontier) -- Fiddling with the Parameters -- If You Knew SUSY … -- Desperately Seeking SUSY -- Large Extra Dimensions: Fact or Fiction? -- Does Superman's Cat Play with Superstrings? -- 9. Recreating the Universe 10,000,000 Times a Second -- The Shape of the Universe -- The Dark Side of the Universe -- Where Are the Galaxies? -- The Big Whisper -- At Three Minutes -- Uniformity and Inflation -- Back to the Beginning -- 10. Epilogue: Why Do We Do It? -- Appendix A: Greek Symbols -- Appendix B: Scientific Jargon -- Appendix C: Particle-Naming Rules -- Particle Name -- Electric Charge -- Form of Matter -- Associated Flavor -- Fundamental Particles -- Non-Fundamental Particles (Baryons and Mesons) -- Appendix D: Essential Relativity and Quantum Mechanics -- Appendix E: Higgs Boson Production -- Appendix F: Neutrino Oscillations -- Further Reading -- Chapter 1: Early History -- Chapter 2: The Path to Knowledge (History of Particle Physics) -- Chapters 3 and 4: Quarks and Leptons and Forces: What Holds It All Together -- Chapter 5: Hunting for the Higgs -- Chapter 6: Accelerators and Detectors: Tools of the Trade -- Chapter 7: Near Term Mysteries -- Chapter 8: Exotic Physics (The Next Frontier) -- Chapter 9: Recreating the Universe 10,000,000 Times a Second -- Appendix D: Essential Relativity and Quantum Mechanics -- Glossary -- Index.