Particle and high-energy physics

Textbook on statistical physics for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses.

Shortly after its inauguration in 1985 the Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, India, started a series of lectures by Nobel Laureates and other scientists of international renown, usually in Physics and Astronomy, sometimes in Life Sciences and Chemistry.

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the fundamental theory and applications of slow-neutron scattering.

Bringing together leading researchers from particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology, Lepton and Baryon Number Violation in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology presents reviews of current theoretical ideas, experimental results, and future perspectives in this topical field.

This book provides chemists with technical insight on pyrotechnics and explosives.

At the Geneva Superpower Summit in November 1985, Secretary of the former Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Regan agreed to pursue an international effort to develop fusion energy for peaceful purposes.

Among the current books that celebrate the discovery of the Higgs boson, Cracking the Particle Code of the Universe is a rare objective treatment of the subject.

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The importance and the beauty of modern quantum field theory resides in the power and variety of its methods and ideas, which find application in domains as different as particle physics, cosmology, condensed matter, statistical mechanics and critical phenomena.

String Theory is our current best candidate for the unification of all fundamental forces, including gravity, in a consistent quantum framework.

This undergraduate textbook provides a simple, concise introduction to tensor algebra and analysis, as well as special and general relativity.

An overview of fine-tuning arguments in physics, for students and researchers in physics and philosophy.

This book explores new experimental techniques and theoretical models to deepen an understanding of radiation effects and ion interaction processes in order to design materials for devices for the emerging quantum technology era.

Describes the fundamentals and applications of gaseous radiation detection, ideal for researchers and experimentalists in nuclear and particle physics.

The three neutrinos are ghostly elementary particles that exist all across the Universe.

This book describes, as simply as possible, the mechanisms of scattering (both elastic and inelastic) of electrons with solid targets (electron-atom, electron-plasmon, and electron-phonon interactions).

Almost all theories of fundamental interactions are nowadays based on the gauge concept.

Up-dated indispensable guide to handling and analysing data obtained from high-energy and nuclear physics experiments.

Major superconducting properties including zero resistance, Meissner effect, sharp phase change, flux quantization, excitation energy gap, Josephson effects are covered and microscopically explained, using quantum statistical mechanical calculations.

This is an open access title.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Quantum Communication and Measurement.

This textbook offers a clear and concise introduction to the main aspects of neutrino physics, providing the foundational knowledge necessary for research in both theoretical and experimental fields.

A simplified, yet rigorous treatment of scattering theory methods and their applications Dispersion Decay and Scattering Theory provides thorough, easy-to-understand guidance on the application of scattering theory methods to modern problems in mathematics, quantum physics, and mathematical physics.

This 2001 book covers motivation for theoretical analysis and present experimental capabilities of electron scattering, with pedagogical examples.

This classic book (volume two of three volumes) is almost exclusively concerned with quantum electrodynamics.

The Advanced Research Workshop on QeD Hard Hadronic Processes was held on 8-13 October 1987 at Hotel on the Cay, St.

Fundamental concepts of phase transitions, such as order parameters, spontaneous symmetry breaking, scaling transformations, conformal symmetry and anomalous dimensions, have deeply changed the modern vision of many areas of physics, leading to remarkable developments in statistical mechanics, elementary particle theory, condensed matter physics and string theory.

The first book entirely dedicated to high energy QCD including parton saturation and CGC, covering the last several decades of development.

This is the first book to discuss the search for new physics in charged leptons, neutrons, and quarks in one coherent volume.

Comprehensive introduction to quantum field theory by Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg, now available in paperback.

An updated edition on the now completed Structural Model, providing an invaluable synthesis of cutting-edge research for students and scientists.

A practical, in-depth description of the physics behind electron emission physics and its usage in science and technology Electron emission is both a fundamental phenomenon and an enabling component that lies at the very heart of modern science and technology.

Covering all aspects of probability theory, statistics and data analysis from a Bayesian perspective for graduate students and researchers.

The purpose of this book is to describe in sufficient detail the mathematical models of hysteresis nonlinearities with "e;nonlocal memories.

Recent discoveries in astronomy, especially those made with data collected by satellites such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, have revolutionized the science of cosmology.

This book introduces two-dimensional supersymmetric field theories with emphasis on both linear and non-linear sigma models.

'The authors provide an up-to-date, well-organised background and essential elements of supergravity notions as well as all relevant aspects of Chern-Simons forms in gravitation.

At this very moment the most ambitious scientific experiment of all time is beginning, and yet its precise aims are little understood by the general public.

Neutron Scattering - Magnetic and Quantum Phenomena provides detailed coverage of the application of neutron scattering in condensed matter research.

A comprehensive, graduate-level textbook introducing quantum field theory, giving equal emphasis to operator and path integral formalisms.

This book is exceptional in offering a thorough but accessible introduction to calorimetry that will meet the needs of both students and researchers in the field of particle physics.

This book focuses on unstable systems both from the classical and the quantum mechanical points of view and studies the relations between them.

This is a problem-oriented introduction to the main ideas, methods, and problems needed to form a basic understanding of the theory of strong interactions.

The second edition of an introductory graduate textbook on the Standard Model of particle physics.

This book offers a discussion of Niels Bohr's conception of "e;complementarity,"e; arguably his greatest contribution to physics and philosophy.

Particles, Fields, Space-Time: From Thomson's Electron to Higgs' Boson explores the concepts, ideas, and experimental results that brought us from the discovery of the first elementary particle in the end of the 19th century to the completion of the Standard Model of particle physics in the early 21st century.

This book provides a comprehensive and instructive coverage of particle physics in the early universe, in a logical way.

Updated and revised throughout, this new edition of The Science of Soccer applies scientific analysis to football, giving us the answers to questions like "e;what's the chance of a team that wins the Premiership also winning the Cup?