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After a historical introduction the basics of elementary particles, explains particle interactions and the relevant detection pphysics, while modern aspects of astroparticle physics are described in a chapter on cosmolog describes the branch of astronomy in which processes in the universe are investigated with experimental methods employed in. Introduction to modern physics welcome to phy 3305. Quarks also have antimatter counterparts called antiquarks designated by a line over the letter symbol. Introduction to elementary particle physics wiley 2008. An introduction to modern particle physics mark thomson university of cambridge science summer school. Ganguly chapter 4 the escience paradigm for particle physics 75. The science of this study is called particle physics, elementary particle physics or sometimes.
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