Фелд Бернард Т.
Модели элементарных частиц.
Перевод с английского под ред. чл.-кор. АН СССР А.И. Алиханяна.
1-е издание на русском языке.
Москва: Мир, 1971.
486 с., 1 л. табл.: черт.; твердый переплет.
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Feld Bernard T.
Models of Elementary Particles (Modeli elementarnykh chastits).
Translated from English, edited by Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences A.I. Alikhanyan.
1st edition in Russian.
Moscow: Mir, 1971.
486 pp., 1 sheet table: drawings; hardcover.
Bernard T. Feld (1916–1993), American nuclear physicist and professor at MIT, was a key figure in postwar particle physics, having worked on the Manhattan Project and later focused on high-energy physics, accelerator design, and disarmament advocacy. His 1969 book “Models of Elementary Particles” is one of the most comprehensive surveys of theoretical models of subatomic particles available in the late 1960s, just before the quark model became dominant.
The monograph systematically reviews the major theoretical frameworks of the time: SU(3) symmetry and the Eightfold Way (Gell-Mann, Ne'eman), bootstrap models, Regge poles and trajectories, current algebra, composite models of hadrons, quark models (including Gell-Mann's original quarks and Zweig's aces), SU(6) classification, and early ideas on color and confinement. Feld discusses experimental data (scattering cross-sections, resonances, decays, magnetic moments) in detail, comparing predictions of various models and highlighting successes and contradictions.
The Russian edition was translated and published by Mir — the main Soviet house for foreign scientific literature — under the editorship of Artem Isaakovich Alikhanyan (1908–1978), corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, founder of the Yerevan Physics Institute, and a leading Soviet high-energy physicist. Alikhanyan's editorial supervision and notes likely incorporated recent Soviet experimental results from Dubna, Serpukhov, and Yerevan, bridging Western theory with Soviet accelerator research.