Annual review of nuclear and particle science. Vol. 52
- ed.; SLAC
The 2002 volume of the ''Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science'' ranges from the applied to the speculative, from the accomplished to the inchoate, bearing witness to the vitality and diversity of subatomic physics. Milla Baldo Ceolin's prefatory chapter <http://nucl.annualreviews.org/cgi/content/abstract/52/1/1>, ''The Discreet Charm of the Nuclear Emulsion Era,'' takes us back to the rebirth of particle physics in Europe after World War II through international emulsion collaborations that revealed wonders unimagined. Gaisser & Honda <http://nucl.annualreviews.org/cgi/content/abstract/52/1/153> detail progress toward understanding the flux of atmospheric neutrinos, which is crucial for interpreting evidence for neutrino oscillations and searching for extraterrestrial neutrino sources. Elliott & Vogel's <http://nucl.annualreviews.org/cgi/content/abstract/52/1/115> status report on double beta decay explores the sensitivity frontier and the prospects for testing the notion that the neutrino is its own antiparticle. Kado & Tully <http://nucl.annualreviews.org/cgi/content/abstract/52/1/65> take stock of searches for electroweak theory's Higgs boson at CERN's Large Electron-Positron collider. Lee & Redwine <http://nucl.annualreviews.org/cgi/content/abstract/52/1/23> draw lessons from three decades' exploration of pion-nucleus interactions at meson factories. Bedaque & van Kolck <http://nucl.annualreviews.org/cgi/content/abstract/52/1/339> review recent progress in effective field theories that permit systematic treatment of few-nucleon systems. El-Khadra & Luke <http://nucl.annualreviews.org/cgi/content/abstract/52/1/201> describe the ways in which Quantum Chromodynamics makes possible a precise determination of the b-quark mass. Harrison, Peggs, & Roser <http://nucl.annualreviews.org/cgi/content/abstract/52/1/425> report on Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider, which explores new realms of collisions among heavy nuclei. Gomez-Cadenas & Harris <http://nucl.annualreviews.org/cgi/content/abstract/52/1/253> introduce the scientific motivations and technical challenges of neutrino factories based on muon storage rings. The study of biological function through positron-emission tomography is a burgeoning application of antimatter. PET's history, practice, and promise are presented by Phelps. <http://nucl.annualreviews.org/cgi/content/abstract/52/1/303> Michael Faraday's words, ''Nothing is too wonderful to be true,'' and ''Experiment is the best test,'' are especially apt for the delicious possibility that spacetime extends beyond the familiar 3 + 1 dimensions. Hewett & Spiropulu <http://nucl.annualreviews.org/cgi/content/abstract/52/1/397>survey the new wave of ideas and experiments to test them. We thank Volume 52's authors for contributing to a spirited conversation among all the friends and practitioners of nuclear and particle science.
- Research Organization:
- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00515
- OSTI ID:
- 815969
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-REPRINT-2001-398
- Journal Information:
- Ann.Rev.Nucl.Part.Sci.52:1-483,2002, Journal Name: Ann.Rev.Nucl.Part.Sci.52:1-483,2002
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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