Particle and high-energy physics

The aim of this book on particle physics is to present the theory in a simple way.

In recent years, there has been considerable growth in research activities related to spin phenomena in high energy physics and their theoretical interpretations.

In this volume, topics are drawn from field theory, especially gauge field theory, as applied to particle, condensed matter and gravitational physics, and concern a variety of interesting subjects.

This book consists of a collection of carefully selected review papers and lecture notes written by the author on Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (PQCD) and its experimental tests.

Bosonization is a useful technique for studying systems of interacting fermions in low dimensions.

This book provides a novel introduction to the Standard Model of electroweak unification.

Much instrumentation has been developed for imaging the trajectories of elementary particles produced in high energy collisions.

This volume of important papers by one the world's leading astrophysicists provides a sweeping survey of the incisive and exciting applications of nuclear and particle physics to a wide range of problems in astrophysics and cosmology.

This book presents, in a unifying perspective, the topics related to N=2 supersymmetry in two dimensions.

This book shows the usefulness of the nucleus as a laboratory for learning about basic symmetries and fundamental interactions.

Robert Eugene Marshak (1916-92) devoted much of his life to helping other people carry out scientific research and gather to discuss their work.

Recently, interacting particle systems have been studied widely from the standpoints of mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology.

This reprint volume is in honour of one of the leaders of Italian high-energy physics, Antonino Zichichi, who is now 65 years old.

This book introduces a rapidly growing new research area - the study of dynamical properties of elementary fields.

The scientific career of John Stewart Bell was distinguished by its breadth and its quality.

One essential characteristic of life is the exchange of matter and energy between organisms and their environment.

The phenomenon of dynamical symmetry breaking (DSB) in quantum field theory is discussed in a detailed and comprehensive way.

In view of the rapid growth in both experimental and theoretical studies of multiphoton process and multiphoton spectroscopy of atoms, ions and molecules in chemistry, physics, biology, materials science, etc.

Systems of strongly correlated electrons are at the heart of recent developments in condensed matter theory.

This book is the result of several years of work by the authors on different aspects of zeta functions and related topics.

This book is an introductory course to accelerator physics at the level of graduate students.

Professor Jerzy Lukierski, an outstanding specialist in the domain of quantum groups, will reach on May 21, 1995 the age of sixty.

Tanguy Altherr was a Fellow in the Theory Division at CERN, on leave from LAPP (CNRS) Annecy.

In the past decade there has been an extemely rapid growth in the interest and development of quantum group theory.

Modern particle accelerators and storage rings, whether used for high-energy physics, synchrotron light sources, or other purposes, require particle beams with the highest possible intensity.

This is an expanded version of the report by the Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and Beyond the Standard Model Working Group which was contributed to Particle Physics - Perspectives and Opportunities, a report of the Division of Particles and Fields Committee for Long Term Planning.

For almost two decades Prof.

This volume comprises original and review articles on the frontier problems of the gravitation theory, theoretical and mathematical physics.

The monograph covers various meso-optical elements, diffraction free light beams, localized electromagnetic fields, gravitational lens, meso-optical devices for transportation of the synchrotron radiation, meso-optical microscopes for high energy elementary particle physics, and the history of meso-optics.

Modulation spectrometry of neutrons refers to a measuring principle, characterized by classification of neutron histories in a probabilistic way, not the usual deterministic way.

This book discusses all three formalisms used in the study of finite temperature field theory, namely the imaginary time formalism, the closed time formalism and thermofield dynamics.

This monograph surveys the role of some associative and non-associative algebras, remarkable by their ubiquitous appearance in contemporary theoretical physics, particularly in particle physics.

This book presents some recent mathematical developments about neutron transport equations.

This book presents and describes a series of unusual and striking strong-field phenomena concerning atoms and free electrons.

The purpose of this book is to give a description of the state of the art in theoretical and experimental work achieved in radiation source development.

To honour W C Rontgen and review the entire area of X-ray development in the various fields of natural, technical, and life sciences, his successors at the Physikalisches Institut of the Universitat Wurzburg organized a conference, named "e;Rontgen Centennial"e;.

Neutrinos are the central thread in the study of many aspects of particle physics and astrophysics.

This book provides a coherent and comprehensive overview of the generation and application of mono-energetic positron beams.

The phase structure of particle physics shows up in matter at extremely high densities and/or temperatures as they were reached in the early universe, shortly after the big bang, or in heavy-ion collisions, as they are performed nowadays in laboratory experiments.

This volume is a natural continuation of the book Algebraic Renormalization, Perturbative Renormalization, Symmetries and Anomalies, by O Piguet and S P Sorella, with the aim of applying the algebraic renormalization procedure to gauge field models quantized in nonstandard gauges.

Edited by internationally recognized authorities in the field, this expanded edition of the bestselling Handbook first published in 1999 is aimed at the design and operation of modern accelerators including Linacs, Synchrotrons and Storage Rings.

Supersymmetry is at an exciting stage of development.

This important book contains selected research papers of Prof Bunji Sakita.

Our journey in search of the origin of matter - and, by extension, the origin of the Universe itself - has taken us deeper and deeper inside atoms.

Supersymmetry or SUSY, one of the most beautiful recent ideas of physics, predicts sparticles existing as superpartners of particles.

Nuclear double beta decay is one of the most promising tools for probing beyond-the-standard-model physics on beyond-accelerator energy scales.

In view of the rapid growth in both experimental and theoretical studies of multi-photon processes and multi-photon spectroscopy of atoms, ions and molecules in chemistry, physics, biology, materials science, etc.

This book describes the basic properties of charged beam transport and the theory of accelerators with radiative damping.

This invaluable volume is a collection of conference talks by James D Bjorken, who has made a huge impact on particle physics and the development of the Standard Model.

In view of the rapid growth in both experimental and theoretical studies of multiphoton processes and multiphoton spectroscopy of atoms, ions and molecules in chemistry, physics, biology, materials science, etc.