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This practical book presents an overview of the various approaches developed to understand the dynamics of electronic systems in physics and chemistry.

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From superstring theory to models with extra dimensions to dark matter and dark energy, a range of theoretically stimulating ideas have evolved for physics beyond the standard model.

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Working with atoms requires years of education and experiments.

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Although fission and fusion are both nuclear reactions, they are miles apart in terms of definitions.

Rare Isotope Beams (RIBs) are ion beams of exotic radioactive nuclei.

Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Third Edition, presents the nuclear science concepts needed to understand and quantify the whole range of nuclear phenomena.

Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Third Edition, presents the nuclear science concepts needed to understand and quantify the whole range of nuclear phenomena.

INTRODUCTION TO NUCLEAR REACTOR PHYSICS is the most comprehensive, modern and readable textbook for this course/module.

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Biophotonics is a burgeoning field that has afforded researchers and medical practitioners alike an invaluable tool for implementing optical microscopy.

Written by world-leading experts in particle physics, this new book from Luciano Maiani and Omar Benhar, with contributions from the late Nicola Cabibbo, is based on Feynman's path integrals.

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This is the third edition of a well-known classic on ultrafast nonlinear and linear processes responsible for supercontinuum generation.

This thesis covers several important topics relevant to our understanding of quark-gluon plasma.

This book presents the developments in accelerator physics and technology implemented at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider, the world's most powerful accelerator for almost twenty years prior to the completion of the Large Hadron Collider.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical concepts and experimental applications of planar waveguides and other confined geometries, such as optical fibres.

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The NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Fundamental Aspects of Inert Gases in Solids, held at Bonas, France from 16-22 September 1990, was the fifth in a series of meetings that have been held in this topic area since 1979.

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This book has been written as part of a series of scientific books being published by Plenum Press.

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In response to the explosion of theories and experiments since the appearance of the first edition, the author has revised and expanded his basic text.

From March 30th to April 3rd, 1992, a NATO Advanced Research workshop entitled "e;Time Dependent Quantum Molecular Dynamics: Theory and Experiment"e; was held at Snowbird, Utah.

This volume contains the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute which was held in Alghero, Sardinia, in July 1991.

The motivations, goals and general culture of theoretical physics and mathematics are different.

This volume contains the papers presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Localization and Propagation o[ Classical Waves in Random and Periodic Media held in Aghia Pelaghia, Heraklion, Crete, May 26- 30, 1992.

Elastic and inelastic scattering in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) are important research subjects.

The authors aim to hone the theory of electron-atom and electron-ion collisions by developing mathematical equations and comparing their results to the wealth of recent experimental data.

Developed from the Global Foundation's International Conference on Environment and Nuclear Energy, held in October 1997, this volume examines the impact of nuclear energy on regional and global environmental issues under a variety of scenarios.

Covering both theory and applications, this important work provides a comprehensive introduction to the modern theory of X-ray and electronic spectra of free atoms.