Beyond the God Particle (59 page)

kinetic,
87
–
88

LHC beam pulse,
88

mass equivalence, E=mc
²
,
90
–
91
,
93

of the vacuum,
143

Englert-Brout-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble Mechanism,
31

European Council for Nuclear Research.
See
CERN

exogenous input (economics),
13
,
14
,
231

Faraday, Michael,
20
,
169

Fermi, Enrico,
21
,
43
,
128
–
131
,
206
,
275
,
277

Fermilab,
19
,
20
,
23
–
27
,
32
,
60
,
149
–
150
,
173
–
174
,
227
–
228
,
229
–
243

Fermilab Tevatron.
See
Tevatron

fermion,
140
,
256
–
269

Fermi's theory of weak interactions,
206
,
208
,
275
,
277

Feynman, Richard,
236

Feynman diagrams,
261
–
262
,
273

force,

applied,
83

electromagnetic.
See
electromagnetism

gravitational.
See
gravity

strong.
See
strong force

weak.
See
weak interactions

weight,
84
–
87

Franklin, Benjamin,
162

g-2 experiment,
232

Galileo,
20
,
37
,
100
–
101
,
247

gamma rays,
198

Garwin, Richard,
75
–
77
,
79

gauge bosons,
259
,
269
–
277
.
See also
gluon; photon; W-boson; Z-boson; graviton

gauge field,
270
–
275

gauge symmetry,
136
–
137
,
260
,
269
–
276

Gell-Mann, Murray,
255
,
259

Geneva, Switzerland,
11
,
149
,
185

Germer, Letser,
159

GeV, “billion electron volts.”
See
electron volt

Gibbs, Josiah Willard,
37
,
100

Ginzburg, Vitaly,
102

Gladstone, William,
169

Glashow, Sheldon,
129
,
137
,
275

gluon,
94
,
260
–
263

God Particle,
31
–
34
,
82
.
See
Higgs boson

Goldstone, Jeffrey,
103

Gore, Al,
15

gram,
85
–
87

graviton,
94
,
254

gravity,
84
,
160
–
161

hadrons,
254

half-life,
61
,
197

handedness,
67
,
71
,
117
–
126
.
See
chirality

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle,
132
–
133
,
159
,
197
,
208
–
209

Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von,
271

Higgs boson,
12
,
18
,
25
,
30
–
34
,
59
,
62
,
81
–
82
,
93
–
95
,
138
–
148
,
186
–
191
,
243
–
244
,
248
–
251
,
263

Higgs (boson) factories,
189
–
191

Higgs field,
141
,
143
–
148

Higgs potential.
See
Higgs field

Higgs vacuum.
See
Higgs field

Holmes, Steve,
230

Homestake Mine (renamed SURF),
225
,
227
,
230

ILC (proposed e
⁺
e
^–
linear collider),
173
–
174
,
189
–
190

ILC Global Design Effort.
See
ILC

Internet,
15

Intersecting Storage Ring.
See
ISR

isotope,
53

ISR (CERN),
23

Janssen, Hans and Zacharias,
150
,
247

Jona-Lasinio, Giovanni,
103

Joule, James Prescott,
88
.
See also
energy, joule

K-mesons,
213
–
214
,
233
–
234

Kepler, Johannes,
100

kilogram,
85
–
87

Koshiba, Masatoshi,
226

L, left-handed.
See
chirality

Landau, Lev,
102

Large Electron–Positron Collider.
See
LEP

Large Hadron Collider.
See
LHC

Lawrence, Ernest,
179

LBNE (proposed Fermilab experiment),
226
–
228
,
230
–
231

Lederman, Leon,
32
–
33
,
69
–
80
,
126

Lee, Tsung Dao,
70
–
72
,
79
,
210

Leeuwenhoek, Anton Van,
150
–
153
,
157

LEP (CERN e
⁺
e
^–
collider),
25
–
26
,
115
,
181
,
185
–
186

lepton,
254
–
263

LEP tunnel,
25
–
26
,
185
–
186

lens,
150
–
155
,
157
–
167
,
175
,
181
–
182

LHC (CERN, Large Hadron Collider),
12
,
19
,
20
,
23
–
27
,
34
,
35
,
81
,
93
,
114
,
131
–
132
,
147
,
149
–
150
,
180
–
182
,
186
–
191
,
203
,
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–
241
,
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251