(T/E) e+e- PHYSICS TODAY AND TOMORROW: Four Tutorial Lectures Delivered at the Arctic School of Physics 1980*

• Main Author: L. Per
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1980
• Subjects: Arctic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.382.6606; http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/2500/slac-pub-2615.pdf

These four tutorial lectures were delivered at the Arctic School of Physics in August, 1980. The purpose of these lectures was to provide an introduction to high energy positron-electron annihilation physics; and to serve as a foundation for the more advanced lectures at the school. I have tried to accomplish this task by discussing selected topics, rather than by surveying the field. In this first lecture I discuss three subjects: the parameters of ee storage rings which are directly relevant to experiments; the physics of e e one-photon-exchange as illustrated by the reaction e+e-and the naive quark model for the reaction e+e- + hadrons. +'1-Iu; The second lecture is devoted to heavy leptons: the status of the tau lepton; and the status of the search for heavier leptons.