The Mysterious World of Fundamental Particles - Cosmic Beginnings

This book covers the following topics: Discovery of Fundamental Particles | Classification of Fundamental Particles | Quarks | Leptons | Antiparticles | Bosons | Interactions | Centre-of-mass Energy | Virtual Photons | Electromagnetic Interactions | Gluons and Colour Charges | W Boson and Weak Processes | Coupling and Coupling Constants | Hadrons | Baryons and Mesons | Fine and Hyperfine Structure | Discovery of Partons inside Nucleons | Isospin and Strangeness | The Baryon Octet | The Baryon Decuplet | The Pseudoscalar Meson Nonet | The Vector Meson Nonet | Cosmic Rays and Muons | Discovery of Strange Quark | Examples of the Decays | Parity | Charge conjugation | The CP Operation | The Branching Ratio | Cross-Section and Resonance | Discovery of the Vector Mesons | Quarkonium | Discovery of the W and Z bosons | Accelerators and Colliders | Production and Separation of Secondary Beams | Examples of the Interactions | Neutral K Meson | D Mesons | B Mesons | Supermultiplets | Omega Baryons | Charmed and Bottom Lambda Baryons | Charmed and Bottom Sigma Baryons | Charmed and Bottom Xi Baryons | Charmed and Bottom Omega Baryons | Positive Bottom Sigma-star Baryon (uub) | Neutral Bottom Xi-star Baryon (usb) | The Top Quark | V Particles | Higgs Boson | Solar Neutrinos | Neutrino Oscillation | White Dwarf and Type I Supernova | Neutron Star and Type II Supernova | Mean Lifetime | Electroweak Unification | Grand Unified Theory | Supersummetry |The Big Bang Theory