Particle and high-energy physics

The Standard Model of elementary particles, although very successful, contains various elements that are put in by hand.

We extend to gravitation our previous study of a quantum wave for all particles and antiparticles of each generation (electron + neutrino + u and d quarks for instance).

This book offers a first-hand introduction to the Lanzhou Heavy Ion Research Facility.

The remarkable recent discovery of the Higgs boson at the CERN Large Hadron Collider completed the Standard Model of particle physics and has paved the way for understanding the physics which may lie beyond it.

This book is the proceedings of the International School of Subnuclear Physics, ISSP 2012, 50th Course - ERICE, 23 June 2013 - 2 July 2012.

This memorial volume is dedicated to physicist Gerald E Brown (1926-2013) or 'Gerry' as he was known to his many students, postdocs, colleagues and friends.

Walter Greiner (1935-2016) was a German physicist of the Goethe University, Frankfurt, well-known for his many contributions in scientific research and developments, in particular the field of nuclear physics.

This highly readable book uncovers the mysteries of the physics of elementary particles for a broad audience.

This book takes the reader from some elementary ideas about groups to the essence of the Standard Model of particle physics along a relatively straight and intuitive path.

This book revisits many of the problems encountered in introductory quantum mechanics, focusing on computer implementations for finding and visualizing analytical and numerical solutions.

Many high-energy collider experiments (including the current Large Hadron Collider at CERN) involve the collision of hadrons.

This book introduces the reader to how fundamental topics in particle physics can be studied with the largest neutrino telescopes currently in operation.

The monumental discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC marked the beginning of a new era in the high energy physics.

A timely presentation of new results, challenges, and opportunities in the quickly developing field of nuclear cluster physics, presented by an international group of eminent theoretical and experimental scientists active in the field.

This book furnishes a brief introduction to classical mirror symmetry, a term that denotes the process of computing Gromov-Witten invariants of a Calabi-Yau threefold by using the Picard-Fuchs differential equation of period integrals of its mirror Calabi-Yau threefold.

In 1980, the Cold War was in full bloom.

In this book, the author presents the theory of quasifree quantum fields and argues that they could provide non-zero scattering for some particles.

Professor Chen Ning Yang, an eminent contemporary physicist, was Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, from 1955 to 1966, and Albert Einstein Professor of Physics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook until his retirement in 1999.

The Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture series has become a very successful tradition in Swedish physics since it started in 1988.

Professor Kerson Huang was a well respected theoretical physicist, who was also well versed in English and Chinese literature.

This book examines the topics of magnetohydrodynamics and plasma oscillations, in addition to the standard topics discussed to cover courses in electromagnestism, electrodynamics, and fundamentals of physics, to name a few.

As accelerator science and technology progressed over the past several decades, the accelerators themselves have undergone major improvements in multiple performance factors: beam energy, beam power, and beam brightness.

'For those interested, the book is a good and well-written overview of the work of Wesson and his collaborators.

In the 25 years since their introduction, Higgs bundles have seen a surprising number of interactions within different areas of mathematics and physics.

This volume is a compilation of the lectures at TASI 2014.

This book presents, in the form of reviews by world's leading physicists in wide-ranging fields in theoretical physics, the influence and prescience of Skyrme's daring idea of 1960, originally conceived for nuclear physics, that fermions can arise from bosons via topological solitons, pervasively playing a powerful role in wide-ranging areas of physics, from nuclear/astrophysics, to particle physics, to string theory and to condensed matter physics.

Written by a former Olympiad student, Wang Jinhui, and a Physics Olympiad national trainer, Bernard Ricardo, Competitive Physics delves into the art of solving challenging physics puzzles.

The Standard Theory of Particle Physics describes successfully the observed strong and electroweak interactions, but it is not a final theory of physics, since many aspects are not understood: (1) How can gravity be introduced in the Standard Theory?

New Edition: Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics (Revised Edition)This book provides a comprehensive overview of modern particle physics accessible to anyone with a true passion for wanting to know how the universe works.

The idea of colliding two particle beams to fully exploit the energy of accelerated particles was first proposed by Rolf Wideroe, who in 1943 applied for a patent on the collider concept and was awarded the patent in 1953.

The matter in our universe is composed of electrons and quarks.

Symmetries play a fundamental role in physics.

Tom Kibble is an inspirational theoretical physicist who has made profound contributions to our understanding of the physical world.

These proceedings are devoted to a wide variety of items, both in theory and experiment, of particle physics such as neutrino and astroparticle physics, tests of the standard model and beyond, and hadron physics.

'This book presents a timely set of academic and intellectual views on Salams scientific passion, contribution and personality, and will be of great interest to academics in the fields of particle physics, high energy physics and scientific history of the developing world.

This book is dedicated to Lev Okun, who passed away in November 2015.

Ions are atoms or molecules stripped of their electrons, so they can be accelerated by electric fields.

At a fundamental level, the interaction of quarks with gluon fields lies at the heart of our understanding of the strong nuclear force.

This book covers recent developments in the covariant formulation of quantum gravity.

This volume is a compilation of the lectures at TASI 2012, held in Boulder, Colorado, June 2012.

This is the fifth volume in the series on the subject of quark-gluon plasma, a unique phase created in heavy-ion collisions at high energy.

This unique volume contains the materials of the XXIXth International Workshop on High Energy Physics.

This informative and entertaining book provides a broad look at the fascinating history of CERN, and the physicists working in different areas at CERN who were active in the discovery of the Higgs Boson.

This volume contains contributions which are largely focused on strong coupling gauge theories and the search of theories beyond the standard model, as well as new aspects in hot and dense QCD - particularly in view of the LHC experiments and the lattice studies of conformal fixed point.

This introduction to nuclear physics and particle physics provides an accessible and clear treatment of the fundamentals.

In this book, the authors discuss the Mellin-Barnes representation of complex multidimensional integrals.

This book provides advanced students and postdocs, as well as current practitioners of any field of nuclear physics involving fission an understanding of the nuclear fission process.

This book studies using string-net models to accomplish a direct, purely two-dimensional, approach to correlators of two-dimensional rational conformal field theories.