Nuclear and particle physics / Claude Amsler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amsler, C., 1947- author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP (Series). Release 2.

IOP expanding physics

[IOP release 2]

IOP expanding physics, 2053-2563

Standardized Title:

Kern- und Teilchenphysik. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Nuclear physics.

Particles (Nuclear physics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] : IOP Publishing, [2015]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

text file

Biography/History:

Claude Amsler studied experimental physics at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. As a Research Associate he worked at Queen Mary College in London, TRIUMF in Vancouver, the University of New Mexico and Brookhaven National Laboratory. After a CERN fellowship and a brief time at the University of Munich he joined the Physics Institute of the University of Zurich, where he became Full Professor of Physics in 1999. He has supervised 40 PhD and Master theses. He is now Professor Emeritus and senior staff at the Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics of the University of Bern. His main fields of interest are strong interaction physics and meson spectroscopy. He is a member of the CMS Collaboration and of the Particle Data Group. He is currently involved in antihydrogen experiments at CERN.

Summary:

This book provides an introductory course on Nuclear and Particle physics for undergraduate and early-graduate students, which the author has taught for several years at the University of Zurich. It contains fundamentals on both nuclear physics and particle physics. Emphasis is given to the discovery and history of developments in the field, and is experimentally/phenomenologically oriented. It contains detailed derivations of formulae such as 2- 3 body phase space, the Weinberg-Salam model, and neutrino scattering. Originally published in German as 'Kern- und Teilchenphysik', several sections have been added to this new English version to cover very modern topics, including updates on neutrinos, the Higgs boson, the top quark and bottom quark physics.

Contents:

Preface

Author biography

The discovery of the atomic nucleus

The nuclear radius

Nuclear masses

Radioactive decay

Nuclear stability

The nuclear shell model

Elementary particles

Relativistic kinematics

Accelerators and detectors

The quark model

Conservation laws

Hadronic interactions

Weak interactions

Neutrinos

The Dirac equation

The electroweak interaction

Applications of the standard model

Deep inelastic electron-proton scattering

The K⁰-K̄⁰ system

The B⁰-B̄⁰ system

Appendices

A. SU(3) wave functions of the light ground state mesons

B. Mass formula

C. SU(3) wave functions of light ground state baryons

D. The CKM matrix and CP violation

E. Infinitesimal gauge field transformation

F. Glossary.

Notes:

"Version: 20150501"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on June 22, 2015).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780750311403

OCLC:

911461690

Access Restriction:

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