Particles and Fundamental Interactions : An Introduction to Particle Physics / by Sylvie Braibant, Giorgio Giacomelli, Maurizio Spurio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Braibant, Sylvie, Author.

Giacomelli, Giorgio, Author.

Spurio, Maurizio, Author.

Series:

Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics, 2192-4791

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Particle acceleration.

Nuclear physics.

Heavy ions.

Physics.

Astrophysics.

Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.

Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons.

Mathematical Methods in Physics.

Astrophysics and Astroparticles.

Local Subjects:

Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.

Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons.

Mathematical Methods in Physics.

Astrophysics and Astroparticles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (502 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st ed. 2012.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.

Language Note:

In English and Italian.

Summary:

This book aims to provide the basis of theoretical foundation and phenomenological knowledge of the structure of matter at the subatomic level. It starts by presenting the general concepts at the simplest level and does not require previous knowledge of the field, except for the basic quantum mechanics. The readers are gradually introduced to the increasingly more advanced topics, so that this text can accompany students all the way to their graduate and doctoral studies in experimental high-energy physics. Special emphasis is placed on experimental and phenomenological aspects of the field and how measurements and theory interplay in the development of particle physics. The book is based on the authors’ undergraduate and graduate lecture courses at the University of Bologna, Italy.

Contents:

Preface

1. Historical Notes and Fundamental Concepts

2. Particle Interactions with Matter and Detectors

3. Particle Accelerators and Particle Detection

4. The Paradigm of Interactions: the Electromagnetic Case

5. First Discussion of the Other Fundamental Interactions

6 Invariance and Conservation Principles

7. Hadron Interactions at Low Energies and the Static Quark Model

8. Weak Interactions and Neutrinos

9. Discoveries in Electron-Positron Collisions

10. High Energy Interactions at the Dynamic Quark Model

11. The Standard Model of the Microcosm

12. CP-Violation and Particle Oscillations

13. Microcosm and Macrocosm

14. Fundamental aspects of Nucleon Interactions

Appendix 1. Periodic Table

Appendix 2. The natural units in subnuclear physics

Appendix 3. Basic concepts of relativity and classical EM

Appendix 4. Dirac’s equation and formalism

Appendix 5. Physical and astrophysical constants

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-485) and index.

ISBN:

9789400724648 (e-book)

9789400724631 (pbk.)