Quarks and the Standard Model (E5)

A deep dive into the subatomic zoo of particles that explains the experiments and theory behind quarks and the rest of the Standard Model of Physics. Explains the difference between Fermions, Bosons, Leptons, Mesons, and Baryons and how the Eightfold way was used to discover the Quarks lurking inside the Hadrons. Goes into the details of the world's major atom smashers -- CERN's Large Hadron Collider, Fermilab's Tevatron, Brookhaven's Cosmotron and AGS, Berkeley's Bevatron, Stanford's SLAC, and DESY -- explaining the features of cyclotrons, synchrotrons, and linear particle accelerators. Features the work of Carl Anderson, Hideki Yukawa, Ernest Lawrence, Mark Oliphant, Wolfgang Pauli, Enrico Fermi, Murry Gell-Mann, Abraham Pais, George Zweig, Sheldon Glashow, Steven Weinberg, Abdus Salam, Frederick Reines, Clyde Cowan, Leon Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger, Martin Perl, and Peter Higgs.