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detectors.
See
ATLAS; CMS; ALICE; LHCb
magnet explosion,
28

30
magnets,
27

29
,
103
,
187
.
See also
magnet
tunnel.
See
LEP tunnel
LHCb (CERN, LHC experiment),
26
light.
See
photon
linac,
170

173
Lister, Joseph Jackson,
153
,
157
Livingston, M. Stanley,
179
London, Fritz,
102

 

magnet,
dipole,
27
ferromagnet,
141

143
magnetic lens.
See
lens
magnetism,
176

177
magnetization,
141

143
quench,
28
superconducting,
27

29
,
103
magnetic field,
63
,
141
,
162
,
174

179
magnification.
See
lens
Main Injector (Fermilab),
184
MAP (Muon Accelerator Project),
241
.
See
Muon Collider
mass,
as chirality oscillation,
122

126
,
145

148
definition of,
32

33
,
35
,
82

92
Dirac mass,
222

223
elementary particle mass,
94

126
,
145

148
inertial,
83
Majorana mass of neutrinos,
222

224
masslessness,
95

105
measuring,
85

87
muon mass from Higgs field,
145

148
Maxwell, James Clerk,
20
,
37
,
100
,
270
McMillan, Edwin,
180
Mendeleev, Dmitri,
40

42
,
46
MeV, “million electron volts.”
See
electron volt
microscope,
22
,
45

46
,
149

167
Mills, Robert,
274
mirror image, mirror world.
See
parity
molecules,
40

42
momentum,
93
motion in space-time,
113

116
,
118

126
muon,
55
,
57
,
59

63
,
68

80
,
114

116
,
118

126
,
130
,
138
,
145

147
Muon Collider (proposed m
+
m

collider),
16
,
60
,
115
,
190

191
,
239

242
,
250

251
Mu2e experiment (Fermilab),
235

 

Nambu, Yoichiro,
103
Neddermeyer, Seth,
60
neutrino,
52
,
55
,
62
,
64
,
68

69
,
130
,
217

228
CP violation,
224

228
,
233
flavors,
207
,
220

224
mass,
220

224
neutrino factory,
231

233
oscillations,
221

224
neutron
52

54
,
57

58
,
94
,
269
neutron beta decay,
204

207
,
208
Nevis Lab.
See
Columbia University
Newton, Isaac,
20
,
37
,
83
,
100

101
,
160
Noether, Emmy; Noether's Theorem,
21
,
71
,
90
Norquist, Grover,
18
NOnA (Fermilab experiment),
226

228
nucleus,
48

49
,
52

54
,
62

 

Oliphant, Sir Marcus,
180
Onion
,
82

 

P.
See
parity
Pauli, Wolfgang,
77
,
259
,
204

207
,
266
,
268
parity,
65

80
,
128
,
134
,
210
particle accelerator,
22

23
,
160

187
,
189

191
,
229

242
,
250

251
Periodic Table of the Elements,
37
,
40

42
,
269
PET (positron emission tomography),
203
photon,
22
,
41
,
44

46
,
62

63
,
96

98
,
102
,
113
,
138
,
147
,
157

158
Pic du Midi de Bigorre in the Pyrenees,
62
pi meson, pion, or
π
meson,
53

55
,
57
,
61

63
,
77

80
,
94
,
253
Planck, Max,
20
,
159
Plato,
37

38
plutonium,
238
Pontecorvo, Bruno,
225
positron (anti-electron),
198

204
,
257
Project X (proposed Fermilab proton accelerator),
191
,
229

242
,
251
proton,
20

23
,
52

54
,
57

58
,
64
,
94
,
231
proton decay experiments,
228
Proton Synchrotron (CERN accelerator),
22

 

QCD.
See
quantum chromodynamics
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