Contents -- 1. The World of Particles -- Cosmic Explorers -- Particle Physics Now -- A Journey to the Start of Time -- 2. Voyage into the Atom -- X-Rays and Radioactivity -- The First Particle -- Rutherford and the Atom -- Inside the Nucleus -- Splitting the Atom -- 3. The Structure of the Atom -- The Electron -- The Nucleus -- The Proton and the Neutron -- The Photon -- 4. The Extraterrestrials -- The Discovery of Cosmic Rays -- The First New Particles -- Strange Particles -- Powell, Pions, and Emulsions -- Particles from Outer Space -- 5. The Cosmic Rain -- The Positron -- The Muon -- The Pion -- The Kaon -- The Lambda -- The Xi and the Sigma -- 6. The Challenge of the Big Machines -- The Whirling Device -- Man-made Cosmic Rays -- Glaser and the Bubble Chamber -- Strong Focusing -- Spark Chambers -- The Supersynchrotrons -- 7. The Particle Explosion -- The Neutral Pion -- The Neutral Cascade -- Antimatter -- The Resonances -- The Omega-minus -- Neutrinos -- Quarks -- 8. Colliders and Image Chambers -- Electronic Bubble Chambers -- Synchroclash -- New Particles, New Machines -- The Antiproton Alternative -- The Biggest Machine in the World -- Silicon Microscopes -- All Kinds of Collider -- 9. From Charm to Top -- Charmed Particles -- The Tau -- Bottom Particles -- Gluons -- The W Particle -- The Z Particle -- Unity -- The Top Quark -- 10. Future Challenges -- What Happened to the Antimatter? -- What is Mass? -- Does Quark-Gluon Plasma Exist? -- What is the Dark Matter? -- Do Neutrinos have Mass? -- Is there a Theory of Everything? -- 11. Futureclash -- Particle Factories -- Neutrinos - Going to all Lengths! -- Particle Astronomy -- Cosmic Record-breakers -- 12. Particles at Work -- Proton Detectives and Neutron Special Agents -- The Reality of Antimatter -- Accelerators at Work -- Pixels in Medicine -- The Final Analysis -- Table of Particles.

Further Reading and Acknowledgements -- Picture Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.