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Authors: Leon M. Lederman,Christopher T. Hill

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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,
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magnet,
dipole,
27
ferromagnet,
141

143
magnetic lens.
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lens
magnetism,
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177
magnetization,
141

143
quench,
28
superconducting,
27

29
,
103
magnetic field,
63
,
141
,
162
,
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179
magnification.
See
lens
Main Injector (Fermilab),
184
MAP (Muon Accelerator Project),
241
.
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Muon Collider
mass,
as chirality oscillation,
122

126
,
145

148
definition of,
32

33
,
35
,
82

92
Dirac mass,
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elementary particle mass,
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126
,
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inertial,
83
Majorana mass of neutrinos,
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224
masslessness,
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105
measuring,
85

87
muon mass from Higgs field,
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148
Maxwell, James Clerk,
20
,
37
,
100
,
270
McMillan, Edwin,
180
Mendeleev, Dmitri,
40

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

46
,
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167
Mills, Robert,
274
mirror image, mirror world.
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parity
molecules,
40

42
momentum,
93
motion in space-time,
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116
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126
muon,
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63
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68

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Muon Collider (proposed m
+
m

collider),
16
,
60
,
115
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242
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Mu2e experiment (Fermilab),
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Nambu, Yoichiro,
103
Neddermeyer, Seth,
60
neutrino,
52
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55
,
62
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64
,
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69
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130
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CP violation,
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228
,
233
flavors,
207
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mass,
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neutrino factory,
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oscillations,
221

224
neutron
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54
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58
,
94
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269
neutron beta decay,
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207
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Nevis Lab.
See
Columbia University
Newton, Isaac,
20
,
37
,
83
,
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101
,
160
Noether, Emmy; Noether's Theorem,
21
,
71
,
90
Norquist, Grover,
18
NOnA (Fermilab experiment),
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228
nucleus,
48

49
,
52

54
,
62

 

Oliphant, Sir Marcus,
180
Onion
,
82

 

P.
See
parity
Pauli, Wolfgang,
77
,
259
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207
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266
,
268
parity,
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80
,
128
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134
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210
particle accelerator,
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,
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Periodic Table of the Elements,
37
,
40

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

46
,
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63
,
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98
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102
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113
,
138
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Pic du Midi de Bigorre in the Pyrenees,
62
pi meson, pion, or
π
meson,
53

55
,
57
,
61

63
,
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80
,
94
,
253
Planck, Max,
20
,
159
Plato,
37

38
plutonium,
238
Pontecorvo, Bruno,
225
positron (anti-electron),
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204
,
257
Project X (proposed Fermilab proton accelerator),
191
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242
,
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proton,
20

23
,
52

54
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58
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64
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94
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proton decay experiments,
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Proton Synchrotron (CERN accelerator),
22

 

QCD.
See
quantum chromodynamics

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