BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 BASIC CONCEPTS OF PARTICLE PHYSICS -- THE DIVISIBLE ATOM -- SIZE -- ELEMENTARY PARTICLES -- SPIN -- ANTIPA RTICLES -- FOUR BASIC FORCES -- FIELD THEORY -- THE BASIC FORCES AND THEIR MESSENGER PARTICLES -- GRAVITY -- ELECTROMAGNETISM -- THE WEAK FORCE -- THE STRONG FORCE -- FEYNMAN DIAGRAMS -- CLASSES OF SUBATOMIC PARTICLES -- LEPTONS AND ANTILEPTONS -- HADRONS -- QUARKS AND ANTIQUARKS -- CHAPTER 2 THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN PARTICLE THEORY -- QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS: DESCRIBING THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCE -- QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS: DESCRIBING THE STRONG FORCE -- THE NUCLEAR BINDING FORCE -- "STRANGENESS" -- SU(3) SYMMETRY -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF QUARK THEORY -- COLOUR -- ASYMPTOTIC FREEDOM -- ELECTROWEAK THEORY: DESCRIBING THE WEAK FORCE -- BETA DECAY -- A UNIVERSAL WEAK FORCE -- EARLY THEORIES -- HIDDEN SYMMETRY -- FINDING THE MESSENGER PARTICLES -- CURRENT RESEARCH IN PARTICLE PHYSICS -- EXPERIMENTS -- THEORY -- CHAPTER 3 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS -- PRINCIPLES OF PARTICLE ACCELERATION -- GENERATING PARTICLES -- ACCELERATING PARTICLES -- GUIDING PARTICLES -- COLLIDING PARTICLES -- DETECTING PARTICLES -- HISTORY -- CONSTANT-VOLTAGE ACCELERATORS -- VOLTAGE MULTIPLIERS (CASCADE GENERATORS) -- VAN DE GRAAFF GENERATORS -- BETATRONS -- CYCLOTRONS -- CLASSICAL CYCLOTRONS -- SYNCHROCYCLOTRONS -- SECTOR-FOCUSED CYCLOTRONS -- LINEAR RESONANCE ACCELERATORS -- LINEAR ELECTRON ACCELERATORS -- LINEAR PROTON ACCELERATORS -- SYNCHROTRONS -- ELECTRON SYNCHROTRONS -- PROTON SYNCHROTRONS -- COLLIDING-BEAM STORAGE RINGS -- ELECTRON STORAGE RINGS -- PROTON STORAGE RINGS -- ELECTRON-PROTON STORAGE RINGS -- IMPULSE ACCELERATORS -- FAMOUS PARTICLE ACCELERATORS -- ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY -- CERN AND THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER -- DESY -- FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY -- SLAC.

CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 4 BIOGRAPHIES -- PATRICK M.S. BLACKETT -- SIR JAMES CHADWICK -- OWEN CHAMBERLAIN -- SIR JOHN DOUGLAS COCKCROFT -- RAYMOND DAVIS, JR. -- SHELDON GLASHOW -- DAVID J. GROSS -- WILLIAM WEBSTER HANSEN -- GERARDUS 'T HOOFT -- KOSHIBA MASATOSHI -- ERNEST ORLANDO LAWRENCE -- TSUNG-DAO LEE -- EDWIN MATTISON MCMILLAN -- SIMON VAN DER MEER -- YOICHIRO NAMBU -- H. DAVID POLITZER -- CARLO RUBBIA -- ABDUS SALAM -- EMILIO SEGRÈ -- ROBERT JEMISON VAN DE GRAAFF -- ERNEST THOMAS SINTON WALTON -- STEVEN WEINBERG -- FRANK WILCZEK -- EDWARD WITTEN -- CHEN NING YANG -- YUKAWA HIDEKI -- DEGENERATE GAS -- FERMI-DIRAC STATISTICS -- HYPERON -- ISOSPIN -- J/PSI PARTICLE -- NEUTRON OPTICS -- RENORMALIZATION -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- BOOKS FOR THE NONPHYSICIST -- TEXTBOOKS -- HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS -- PARTICLE ACCELERATORS -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.