Shifting standards [electronic resource] : experiments in particle physics in the twentieth century / Allan Franklin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Some measurements of the temperature variation in the electrical resistance of a sample of copper -- Do falling bodies move south? -- The isolation of an ion, a precision measurement of its charge, and the correction of Stokes's law -- Directed quanta of scattered X-rays -- A determination of e/m for an electron by a new deflection method -- An uncertain interlude -- Electron polarization -- Mean lifetime of V-particles and heavy mesons -- Detection of the free antineutrino -- Measurement of the Ke2+ branching ratio -- Determination of Kl3 form factors from measurements of decay correlations and muon polarizations -- Bad data : an interlude -- Measurement of the antineutron-proton cross section at low energy -- New measurements of properties of the [omega] hyperon -- The coherent scattering of neutrinos -- Search for neutral weakly interacting massive particles in the Fermilab Tevatron wideband neutrino beam -- Measurement of the B+ total cross section and B+ differential cross section d/dpT in pp collisions at ?s = 1.8 TeV -- B meson decays to charmless meson pairs containing [eta] or [eta]' mesons -- The case of the disappearing sigmas -- Conclusion.

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