Ebook: From Ultra Rays to Astroparticles: A Historical Introduction to Astroparticle Physics

The scope of the book is to give an overview of the history of astroparticle physics, starting with the discovery of cosmic rays (Victor Hess, 1912) and its background (X-ray, radioactivity).
The book focusses on the ways in which physics changes in the course of this history. The following changes run parallel, overlap, and/or interact:
- Discovery of effects like X-rays, radioactivity, cosmic rays, new particles but also progress through non-discoveries (monopoles) etc.
- The change of the description of nature in physics, as consequence of new theoretical questions at the beginning of the 20th century, giving rise to quantum physics, relativity, etc.
- The change of experimental methods, cooperations, disciplinary divisions.
With regard to the latter change, a main topic of the book is to make the specific multi-diciplinary features of astroparticle physics clear.

The book is a historical introduction to astroparticle physics. Its scope is to give an overview of this complex field of research, starting with the discovery of cosmic rays (Victor Hess, 1912) until the current experiments with particle telescopes.

The book focuses on the ways in which physics changes in the course of this history. The following changes run parallel, overlap, and/or

interact:

- Discovery of effects like X-rays, radioactivity, cosmic rays, new

particles, the Cosmic Microwave Background and its anisotropies, but also progress through non-discoveries (monopoles) etc.

- The change of the description of nature in physics, as consequence of

the scientific revolutions at the beginning of the 20th century, giving rise to quantum physics, relativity, etc.

- The shifts from particle physics to cosmology and to particle physics

with cosmic accelerators.

- The change of experimental methods, cooperations, and disciplinary divisions.

With regard to the latter change, a main topic of the book is to make the specific multi-disciplinary features of astroparticle physics clear to undergraduate and graduate students, historians of physics, and philosophers of science.

The book is a historical introduction to astroparticle physics. Its scope is to give an overview of this complex field of research, starting with the discovery of cosmic rays (Victor Hess, 1912) until the current experiments with particle telescopes.

The book focuses on the ways in which physics changes in the course of this history. The following changes run parallel, overlap, and/or

interact:

- Discovery of effects like X-rays, radioactivity, cosmic rays, new

particles, the Cosmic Microwave Background and its anisotropies, but also progress through non-discoveries (monopoles) etc.

- The change of the description of nature in physics, as consequence of

the scientific revolutions at the beginning of the 20th century, giving rise to quantum physics, relativity, etc.

- The shifts from particle physics to cosmology and to particle physics

with cosmic accelerators.

- The change of experimental methods, cooperations, and disciplinary divisions.

With regard to the latter change, a main topic of the book is to make the specific multi-disciplinary features of astroparticle physics clear to undergraduate and graduate students, historians of physics, and philosophers of science.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-X
Introduction....Pages 1-16
From the Discovery of Radioactivity to the First Accelerator Experiments....Pages 17-47
Development of Cosmology: From a Static Universe to Accelerated Expansion....Pages 49-70
Evolution of Astrophysics: Stars, Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Particle Acceleration....Pages 71-102
Development of Ultra High-Energy Cosmic Ray Research....Pages 103-141
Very-High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy: A 23-Year Success Story in Astroparticle Physics....Pages 143-185
Search for the Neutrino Mass and Low Energy Neutrino Astronomy....Pages 187-213
From Particle Physics to Astroparticle Physics: Proton Decay and the Rise of Non-accelerator Physics....Pages 215-229
Towards High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy....Pages 231-263
From Waves to Particle Tracks and Quantum Probabilities....Pages 265-295
Back Matter....Pages 297-345

The book is a historical introduction to astroparticle physics. Its scope is to give an overview of this complex field of research, starting with the discovery of cosmic rays (Victor Hess, 1912) until the current experiments with particle telescopes.

The book focuses on the ways in which physics changes in the course of this history. The following changes run parallel, overlap, and/or

interact:

- Discovery of effects like X-rays, radioactivity, cosmic rays, new

particles, the Cosmic Microwave Background and its anisotropies, but also progress through non-discoveries (monopoles) etc.

- The change of the description of nature in physics, as consequence of

the scientific revolutions at the beginning of the 20th century, giving rise to quantum physics, relativity, etc.

- The shifts from particle physics to cosmology and to particle physics

with cosmic accelerators.

- The change of experimental methods, cooperations, and disciplinary divisions.

With regard to the latter change, a main topic of the book is to make the specific multi-disciplinary features of astroparticle physics clear to undergraduate and graduate students, historians of physics, and philosophers of science.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-X
Introduction....Pages 1-16
From the Discovery of Radioactivity to the First Accelerator Experiments....Pages 17-47
Development of Cosmology: From a Static Universe to Accelerated Expansion....Pages 49-70
Evolution of Astrophysics: Stars, Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Particle Acceleration....Pages 71-102
Development of Ultra High-Energy Cosmic Ray Research....Pages 103-141
Very-High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy: A 23-Year Success Story in Astroparticle Physics....Pages 143-185
Search for the Neutrino Mass and Low Energy Neutrino Astronomy....Pages 187-213
From Particle Physics to Astroparticle Physics: Proton Decay and the Rise of Non-accelerator Physics....Pages 215-229
Towards High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy....Pages 231-263
From Waves to Particle Tracks and Quantum Probabilities....Pages 265-295
Back Matter....Pages 297-345
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