Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I EXPERIMENT AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEORY OF WEAK INTERACTIONS: FROM FERMI TO V-A
- 1 Fermi's theory
- 2 Toward a universal Fermi interaction; muons and pions
- 3 Beta-decay theory following World War II
- 4 The discovery of parity nonconservation
- 5 The V-A theory of weak interactions and its acceptance
- II TOWARD A PHILOSOPHY OF EXPERIMENT
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- References
- Index
2 - Toward a universal Fermi interaction; muons and pions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I EXPERIMENT AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEORY OF WEAK INTERACTIONS: FROM FERMI TO V-A
- 1 Fermi's theory
- 2 Toward a universal Fermi interaction; muons and pions
- 3 Beta-decay theory following World War II
- 4 The discovery of parity nonconservation
- 5 The V-A theory of weak interactions and its acceptance
- II TOWARD A PHILOSOPHY OF EXPERIMENT
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- References
- Index
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- Experiment, Right or Wrong , pp. 25 - 41Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990