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020			_z9781107411395 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aQC793.3.Q35 _bC36 2010
082	0	0	_a539.7/548 _222
100	1		_aCao, Tian Yu, _d1941- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aFrom current algebra to quantum chromodynamics : _ba case for structural realism / _cTian Yu Cao.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_a1 online resource (x, 308 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505	0		_aThe rise of current algebra -- Sum rules -- Saturation and closure -- Scaling -- Theorizations of scaling -- The advent of QCD -- Early justifications and explorations -- Structural realism and the construction of QCD -- Historiographical issues in the CA-QCD narrative.
520			_aThe advent of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) in the early 1970s was one of the most important events in twentieth-century science. This book examines the conceptual steps that were crucial to the rise of QCD, placing them in historical context against the background of debates that were ongoing between the bootstrap approach and composite modeling, and between mathematical and realistic conceptions of quarks. It explains the origins of QCD in current algebra and its development through high-energy experiments, model-building, mathematical analysis and conceptual synthesis. Addressing a range of complex physical, philosophical and historiographical issues in detail, this book will interest graduate students and researchers in physics and in the history and philosophy of science.
650		0	_aQuantum chromodynamics _xMathematical models.
650		0	_aAlgebra.
650		0	_aQuantum chromodynamics _xHistory.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521889339
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511781759
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