Useful resource material for
Particle Physics
Direct support for A-level modules
- Particle Physics: a new course for schools and colleges
Institute of Physics
0-750-302245-3
- Nuclear Physics and Fundamental Particles by R Muncaster
Stanley Thornes
0-7487-1805-2
- Quarks, Leptons and the Big Bang by J Allday
Institute of Physics Publishing
0-7503-0462-6
- Nuclear and Particle Physics by D Sang
Nelson
0-17-448238-8
- Particle Physics by Steve Adams
Heinemann
0-435-57084-6
Good background for students
- The Cosmic Onion by F Close
Heinemann
- The forces of nature by P C W Davies
Cambridge University Press
0-521-29535-1
- Superstrings: a theory of everything? by P Davies & J Brown
Cambridge University Press
- In search of the Big Bang by J Gribbin
Corgi
- The Particle Hunters by Y Ne'emann & Y Kirsh
Cambridge University Press
0-521-47686-0
- The Story of the W and Z by P Watkins
Cambridge University Press
0-521-31875-0
- The Particle Explosion by F Close, M Marten & C Sutton
Oxford University Press
0-19-851965-6
Other useful books
- Quarks: the stuff of matter by H Fritzsch
Pelican
0-14-015863-4
- The Cosmic Code by H R Pagels
Pelican
0-14-022547-1
- The discovery of sub-atomic particles by S Weinberg
Penguin
0-14-017541-5
- The Particle Play by J C Polkinghorne
W H Freeman
- Building the Universe by C Sutton (ed)
Basil Blackwell/New Scientist
- Spaceship Neutrino by C Sutton
Cambridge University Press
0-521-36703-4
- The quark of the jaguar by M Gell-Mann
Abacus
0-349-10649-5
- QED: the strange story of light and matter by R P Feynman
Penguin
014-012505-1
- Superstrings and the search for the theory of everything by F David Pea
Abacus
0-349-10687-5
- Superforce: the search for a grand unified theory of nature by Paul Davies
Penguin
014-024363-1
- The particle garden by Gorden Kane
Addison-Wesley
0-201-40826-0
- The quark machines by Gorden Fraser
IoP Publishing
0-7503-0447-2
Interesting articles
- Particle detectors come out of the laboratory
D J Miller
New Scientist, 10 February 1990 pp 43-46
- The number of families of matter
G J Feldman and J Steinberger
Scientific American, February 1991 p 70
- Physics Education, vol 27 No.2 March '92
Institute of Physics Publications
- Imperfect mirrors of the universe
K Peach and C Sutton
New Scientist, 11 April 1992 pp 35-39
- The origin of mass
R J Cashmore and C Sutton
New Scientist, 18 April 1992 pp 35-39
- Turning the proton inside out
C Sutton and N Harnew
New Scientist, 30 May 1992 pp 29-33
- Particle accelerators
C Sutton
New Scientist, 13 June 1992 Inside Science centrefold
- World of quarks
C Sutton
New Scientist, 10 July 1993 Inside Science centrefold
- How to glue the quarks together
A Watson
New Scientist, 4 Dec 1993 pp 25-29
- The battle to build a better boson hunter
P Renton
New Scientist, 19 November 1994 pp 40-44
- Heart of the atom
C Sutton
New Scientist, 8 July 1995 Inside Science centrefold
- Complex heart of a simple proton
R J Cashmore and C Sutton
New Scientist, 1 July 1995 pp 30-33
- Cosmic changelings
C Sutton
New Scientist, 16 March 1996 pp 28-32
- The heart of quarkness
H Muir
New Scientist, 11 May 1996 pp 28-31
- The lopsided Universe
R Irion
New Scientist, 6 February 1999 pp 26-30
- Massive attack
M Riordan
New Scientist, 13 March 1999 pp 32-35
- Masses and molasses
F Wilczek
New Scientist, 10 April 1999 pp 32-37
URL: http://www.pp.rhul.ac.uk/hep/schools/hep_books.html