Particle and high-energy physics

This book gives an intermediate level treatment of quantum field theory, appropriate to a reader with a first degree in physics and a working knowledge of special relativity and quantum mechanics.

This thesis addresses two different topics, both vital for implementing modern high-energy physics experiments: detector development and data analysis.

This thesis provides a detailed and comprehensive description of the search for New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the mono-jet final state, using the first 3.

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This work was nominated as an outstanding PhD thesis by the LPSC, Universite Grenoble Alpes, France.

This book presents a high-level study of cosmology with interacting dark energy and no additional fields.

This volume provides a detailed description of the seminal theoretical construction in 1964, independently by Robert Brout and Francois Englert, and by Peter W.

This textbook addresses graduate students starting to specialize in theoretical physics.

These course-tested lectures provide a technical introduction to Supersymmetric Grand Unified Theories (SUSY GUTs), as well as a personal view on the topic by one of the pioneers in the field.

This biography sheds new light on the life and work of physicist Ettore Majorana (including unpublished contributions), as well as on his mysterious disappearance in March 1938.

The lectures in this book provide graduate students and non-specialist researchers with a concise introduction to the concepts and formalism required to reduce the ten-dimensional string theories to the observable four-dimensional space-time - a procedure called string compactification.

The Zamolodchikov c-theorem has led to important new insights in the understanding of the Renormalisation Group (RG) and the geometry of the space of QFTs.

This graduate-level text collects and synthesizes a series of ten lectures on the nuclear quantum many-body problem.

This textbook provides an introduction to radiation, the principles of interaction between radiation and matter, and the exploitation of those principles in the design of modern radiation detectors.

This compact but exhaustive textbook, now in its significantly revised and expanded second edition, provides an essential introduction to the field quantization of light and matter with applications to atomic physics and strongly correlated systems.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of developments in the field of holographic entanglement entropy.

This book presents the Green's function formalism in a basic way and demonstrates its usefulness for applications to several well-known problems in classical physics which are usually solved not by this formalism but other approaches.

This book provides a compilation of in-depth articles and reviews on key topics within gravitation, cosmology and related issues.

Rafelski presents Special Relativity in a language deemed accessible to students without any topical preparation - avoiding the burden of geometry, tensor calculus, and space-time symmetries - and yet advancing in highly contemporary context all the way to research frontiers.

This thesis presents the first isotope-shift measurement of bound-electron g-factors of highly charged ions and determines the most precise value of the electron mass in atomic mass units, which exceeds the value in the literature by a factor of 13.

With this brief, the authors present algorithms for model-free stabilization of unstable dynamic systems.

This thesis discusses in detail the measurement of the polarizations of all S-wave vector quarkonium states in LHC proton-proton collisions with the CMS detector.

This is the second edition of a well-received book that is a modern, self-contained introduction to the theory of gravitational interactions.

This book describes the interaction of living matter with photons, neutrons, charged particles, electrons and ions.

This book elaborates on the acceleration of charged particles with ultrafast terahertz electromagnetic radiation.

This book explores combinatorial problems and insights in quantum field theory.

This thesis describes a new connection between algebraic geometry, topology, number theory and quantum field theory.

These lecture notes provide a systematic introduction to matrix models of quantum field theories with non-commutative and fuzzy geometries.

This second edition features new chapters highlighting advances in our understanding of the behavior and properties of scintillators, and the discovery of new families of materials with light yield and excellent energy resolution very close to the theoretical limit.

This work was nominated as an outstanding PhD thesis by the LPSC, Universite Grenoble Alpes, France.

This thesis details significant improvements in the understanding of the nuclear EMC effect and nuclear shadowing in neutrino physics, and makes substantial comparisons with electron scattering physics.

This thesis studies various aspects of non-critical strings both as an example of a non-trivial and solvable model of quantum gravity and as a consistent approximation to the confining flux tube in quantum chromodynamics (QCD).

This thesis describes the search for Dark Matter at the LHC in the mono-jet plus missing transverse momentum final state, using the full dataset recorded in 2012 by the ATLAS Experiment.

This thesis describes pioneering research on the extension of plasmonics schemes to the regime of high-intensity lasers.

This thesis reports on the search for dark matter in data taken with the ATLAS detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

This book is a guide to the use of Monte Carlo techniques in radiation transport.

This primer develops Conformal Field Theory (CFT) from scratch, whereby CFT is viewed as any conformally-invariant theory that describes a fixed point of a renormalization group flow in quantum field theory.

The new edition of this remarkable text offers the reader a conceptually strong introduction to quantum mechanics, but goes beyond this to present a fascinating tour of modern theoretical physics.

This book describes research in two different areas of state-of-the-art hadron collider physics, both of which are of central importance in the field of particle physics.

This thesis presents the first measurement of charmed D0 meson production relative to the reaction plane in Pb-Pb collisions at the center-of-mass energy per nucleon-nucleon collision of vsNN = 2.

This thesis studies collider phenomenology of physics beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Born out of a major international dialogue held at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, Italy, this collection of essays presents innovative and provocative arguments about the claims of universal knowledge schemes and the different aesthetic and material forms in which such claims have been made and executed.

This book lays the foundations for you to understand all that you always wanted to know about radioactivity.

This book reviews the latest experimental results on jet physics from proton-proton collisons at the LHC.

This monograph introduces the basic concepts of the theory of causal fermion systems, a recent approach to the description of fundamental physics.

This book presents a comprehensive mathematical approach for solving stochastic magnetic field problems.

This thesis presents several significant new results that shed light on two major puzzles of modern cosmology: the nature of inflation, the very early phase of the universe that is thought to have given rise to the large-scale structures that we observe today; and that of the current accelerated expansion.

"e;Modern physics is rife with provocative and fascinating ideas, from quantum mechanics to the multiverse.

This thesis describes in detail a search for weakly interacting massive particles as possible dark matter candidates, making use of so-called mono-jet events.

This doctoral thesis focuses on the search for new phenomena in top-antitop quark (tt) final states with additional b-quark jets at the LHC.