Particle and high-energy physics

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.

A large variety of materials prove to be fascinating in solid state and condensed matter physics.

This volume contains contributions to the workshop, which was largely focused on the strong coupling gauge theories in search for theories beyond the standard model, particularly, the LHC experiments and lattice studies of conformal fixed point.

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

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

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

'A light read, this book will appeal to all the scientists who at some point in their career stepped on the floor of Fermilab.

The neutrino is the most fascinating elementary particle due to its elusive nature and outstanding properties that have attracted the interest of generations of physicists since 1930, when it was first postulated by Wolfgang Pauli as a 'desperate remedy' to explain the apparent energy violation in the beta decay.

The volume of these proceedings is devoted to a wide variety of items, both in theory and experiment, of particle physics such as electroweak theory, fundamental symmetries, tests of the standard model and beyond, neutrino and astroparticle physics, hadron physics, gravitation and cosmology, physics at the present and future accelerator.

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.

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

Since its invention in the 1920s, particle accelerators have made tremendous progress in accelerator science, technology and applications.

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.

The main focus of this year's Proceedings of the 53rd Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics is the future of physics, including the new frontiers in other fields.

Stanley Mandelstam (1928-2016) was one of the most influential and respected particle theorists.

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

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

The last decade has seen fruitful interactions between elementary particle physics and cosmology.

In the last few years there has been a revival of interest in the old idea that spacetime may have more than four dimensions, all but four having been curled up into a small circumference.

This volume deals with the exciting new subject of superstrings.

This volume is a compilation of lectures delivered at the TASI 2015 summer school, 'New Frontiers in Fields and Strings', held at the University of Colorado Boulder in June 2015.

This book contains the Proceedings of the Seventh Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry, held at Indiana University in Bloomington on June 20-24, 2016.

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?

'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.

If standard gravitational theory is correct, then most of the matter in the universe is in an unidentified form which does not emit enough light to have been detected by current instrumentation.

Symmetries play a fundamental role in physics.

CHEP (Computing in High Energy Physics) is the largest international meeting of the communities of High Energy Physics, Computing Science and the Computing Industry.

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

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.

We have lost one of the giants of the twentieth century physics when Yoichiro Nambu passed away in July, 2015, at the age of 94.

The book provides a comprehensive account of particle physics linking various aspects of particle physics in a coherent manner.

This book gives an introduction to main ideas used in the physics of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions.

Advances in experimental techniques are allowing researchers to investigate the extremes of the dynamics of particle interactions with electromagnetic fields.

This invaluable book is based on lecture notes developed for a one-semester graduate course entitled "e;Interaction of Radiation with Matter"e;, taught in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The progress made in particle physics during the last two decades has led to the formulation of the so-called Standard Model of elementary particles and its quantitative experimental test.

The success in the standard model and to the continuing research for a better understanding of the quantum chromodynamics has resulted in a great interest in spin physics among high energy and nuclear physics.

This volume develops the techniques of perturbative QCD in great pedagogical detail starting with field theory.

This book gives a systematic description of collision theory within the framework of non-relativistic quantum mechanics.

This book attempts to cover the fascinating field of physics of relativistic heavy ions, mainly from the experimentalist's point of view.

This volume deals with canonical quantization, Feynman rules and renormalization of Yang-Mills theories in algebraic non-covariant gauges (typically axial and light-cone gauges).

This book presents the conceptional line which goes from the observation of physical systems to their modeling and analysis by ordinary differential nonlinear stochastic equations.

This volume develops the techniques of perturbative QCD in great pedagogical detail starting with field theory.

Originally written in 1964, this famous text is a study of the classical theory of charged particles.

This book covers the present status of art of grand unification with and without supersymmetry (gravity), including cosmological consequences.

This is probably the only textbook available that gathers QCD, many-body theory and phase transitions in one volume.

This book is a collection of lecture notes discussing the basic features of the Quantum Mechanics of Infinite Systems such as collective phenomena, spontaneous symmetry breaking, etc.

These lecture notes are based on special courses on Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics given for graduate students at the City College of New York.

This book provides a thorough description of the manifestly covariant canonical formalism of the abelian and non-abelian gauge theories and quantum gravity.