Particle and high-energy physics

Black holes are invisible objects in space that create enormous amounts of energy, enough to power all our needs.

Plan it, test it, solve it!

What would it be like to travel back in time to see dinosaurs, or forward to meet your future self?

Black holes are invisible objects in space that create enormous amounts of energy, enough to power all our needs.

Fourteen years is a long time, and especially in the field of cosmology new observational results and new theoretical ideas seem to appear at a steadily increasing rate.

Gamma-ray astronomy began in the mid-1960s with balloon satellite, and, at very high photon energies, also with ground-based instruments.

In this textbook for graduate students in physics the author carefully analyses the role of causality in Q.

Partial Inner Product (PIP) Spaces are ubiquitous, e.

Entanglement was initially thought by some to be an oddity restricted to the realm of thought experiments.

Operational Quantum Physics offers a systematic presentation of quantum mechanics which makes exhaustive use of the full probabilistic structure of this theory.

The reflection of and neutrons from surfaces has existed as an x-rays exp- imental for almost it is in the last technique fifty Nevertheless, only years.

The book constitutes a compact review of the applications of effective field theory methods in flavour physics, with emphasis on heavy quark physics.

Self-duality greatly reduces the mathematical difficulties of a theory but it is also a notion of considerable physical significance.

Quantum mechanics is an endless source of new questions and fascinating observations.

This book presents a high-precision measurement of the cross section for electron-positron annihilation into three pions (π?

This book presents a high-precision measurement of the cross section for electron-positron annihilation into three pions (π?

Picture book with two poems on gravity and Isaac Newtons laws of force.

A picture book with two poems on mirrors and light.

Since QCD is an ever growing area of physics, a number of sections in this third edition of the book have been expanded, in particular, those dealing with deep inelastic scattering.

This two-volume book serves as a thorough introduction to the field of high-energy particle accelerator physics and beam dynamics.

In this book, quantum mechanics is developed from the outset on a relativistic basis, using the superposition principle, Lorentz invariance and gauge invariance.

Why another book on the renormalization of field theory?

The new edition provided the opportunity of adding a new chapter entitled "e;Principles and Lessons of Quantum Physics"e;.

A modern Hamiltonian theory offering a unified treatment of all types of systems (i.

This book is dedicated to the relativistic (laser intensity above 1018 W/cm2) laser-plasma interactions, which mainly concerns two important aspects: ion acceleration and extreme-light-field (ELF).

In the last hundred years, modern physics and cosmology have shown that there exist regions of the universe forever beyond our reach, hidden by truly ultimate horizons.

In the original formulation of quantum mechanics the existence of a precise border between a microscopic world, governed by quantum mechanics, and a macroscopic world, described by classical mechanics was assumed.

This textbook teaches particle physics very didactically.

This textbook explains the experimental basics, effects and theory of nuclear physics.

Special relativity is the basis of many fields in modern physics: particle physics, quantum field theory, high-energy astrophysics, etc.

This Brief presents an introduction to the theory of the renormalization group in the context of quantum field theories of relevance to particle physics.

Quantum physics may appear complicated, especially if one forgets the "e;big picture"e; and gets lost in the details.

This thesis focuses on the recent firewall controversy surrounding evaporating black holes, and shows that in the best understood example concerning electrically charged black holes with a flat event horizon in anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime, the firewall does not arise.

Tests of the current understanding of physics at the highest energies achievable in man-made experiments are performed at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.

This work develops novel data analysis techniques enabling aspects of the Standard Model of particle physics to be tested with unprecedented precision using data from the DZero experiment at the high energy "e;Tevatron"e; proton-antiproton collider at Fermilab, Chicago.

Zeta-function regularization is a powerful method in perturbation theory, and this book is a comprehensive guide for the student of this subject.

A major outstanding problem in physics is understanding the nature of the dark energy that is driving the accelerating expansion of the Universe.

Quantum physics may appear complicated, especially if one forgets the "e;big picture"e; and gets lost in the details.

This dissertation focuses on the study of novel high-gain free-electron laser (FEL) operation schemes with external seed lasers.

This book mainly investigates the precision predictions on the signal of new physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) scheme.

This thesis focuses on the recent firewall controversy surrounding evaporating black holes, and shows that in the best understood example concerning electrically charged black holes with a flat event horizon in anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime, the firewall does not arise.

The basic idea, simple and revolutionary at the same time, to replace the concept of a point particle with a one-dimensional string, has opened up a whole new field of research.

Quarks are the main constituents of protons and neutrons and hence are important building blocks of all the matter that surrounds us.

This thesis describes one of the first measurements made at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and highest-energy particle collider.

This well-known introductory textbook gives a uniform presentation of nuclear and particle physics from an experimental point of view.

Born after World War II, large-scale experimental high-energy physics (HEP) has found itself limited ever since by available accelerator, detector and computing technologies.

When trying to apply the solid knowledge of quantum field theory to actual LHC physics - in particular to the Higgs sector and certain regimes of QCD - one inevitably meets an intricate maze of phenomenological know-how, common lores and other, often historically grown intuition about what works and what not.

This thesis covers the few-cycle laser-driven acceleration of electrons in a laser-generated plasma.

Starting from basic principles, the book covers a wide variety of topics, ranging from Heisenberg, Schroedinger, second quantization, density matrix and path integral formulations of quantum mechanics, to applications that are (or will be) corner stones of present and future technologies.

This book continues the fundamental work of Arnold Sommerfeld and David Hestenes formulating theoretical physics in terms of Minkowski space-time geometry.