Particle and high-energy physics

This informative monograph describes the technological evolution of silicon detectors and their impact on high energy particle physics.

This 2003 book is a rigorous introduction to the theory of complex angular momenta, based on lectures by Vladimir Gribov.

This book introduces the physics and chemistry of plastic scintillators (fluorescent polymers) that are able to emit light when exposed to ionizing radiation, discussing their chemical modification in the early 1950s and 1960s, as well as the renewed upsurge in interest in the 21st century.

This volume presents the peer-reviewed proceedings of the XXIII DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium 2018, which was held at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, on 10-15 December 2018.

The goal of this essay is to discuss the future of discovery in particle physics.

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.

Adopting an elegant geometrical approach, this advanced pedagogical text describes intuitive methods for understanding the subtle logic of supersymmetry.

The history is full of misconceptions that opposed the progress of physics.

During the week of 3-8 June 1996, approximately 83 theoretical (and 2 experimental) physicists interested in the current problems of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) gathered at the American University of Paris, France, to present and discuss a total of 59 papers on Collisions, Confinement, and Chaos in QCD.

The analysis described in this thesis is the search for the Higgs boson, decaying into bb pair, in the associated production with a vector boson, in the extreme Higgs boson transverse momentum region where the Higgs boson is reconstructed using the large-R jet technique.

The large Nc limit plays a fundamental role in the study of non-abelian gauge theories such as quantum chromodynamics (QCD).

La seconda edizione di questo testo mantiene tutte le caratteristiche della prima edizione, specificamente progettata per i corsi semestrali della Lurea Magistrale in Fisica: un testo di riferimento completo, autosufficiente, facilmente utilizzabile, e accessibile a studenti provenienti da indirizzi e piani di studio diversi.

This self-contained textbook with exercises discusses a broad range of selected topics from classical mechanics and electromagnetic theory that inform key issues related to modern accelerators.

This volume presents lectures given at the Wisla 19 Summer School: Differential Geometry, Differential Equations, and Mathematical Physics, which took place from August 19 - 29th, 2019 in Wisla, Poland, and was organized by the Baltic Institute of Mathematics.

This second edition of Some Unusual Topics in Quantum Mechanics builds upon the topics covered in the first, with additional chapters that delve deeper into the mathematical foundations of the subject.

This international meeting on ultrahigh energy multiparticle phenomena started with a summary of neutrino physics, followed by a detailed review of LEP results.

This is the first of a new series of conferences on High Energy Physics to be held at the ICTP on Trieste.

This unique volume presents an original approach to physical acoustics with additional emphasis on the most useful surface acoustic waves on solids.

This book offers an original view of the color confinement/deconfinement transition that occurs in non-abelian gauge theories at high temperature and/or densities.

This book presents a new approach to understanding the foundation of quantum physics through the "e;quantum wave model"e; hypothesis.

This thesis presents the results of indirect dark matter searches in the gamma-ray sky of the near Universe, as seen by the MAGIC Telescopes.

This thesis focuses on searches for squarks with the ATLAS detector in "e;compressed"e; scenarios where the scalar top is very close in mass to the lightest supersymmetric particle.

With contributions by leading theoreticians, this book presents the discoveries of hitherto hidden connections between seemingly unrelated fields of fundamental physics.

It is widely accepted that quarks and leptons should be understood on the basis of the same unification scheme.

       This proceedings book presents dual approaches to examining new theoretical models and their applicability in the search for new scintillation materials and, ultimately, the development of industrial technologies.

This textbook describes the physics of semiconductor nanostructures with emphasis on their electronic transport properties.

The first part of this thesis presents the measurement of the inclusive cross-section for electron production from heavy-flavour decays in the electron transverse momentum range 7 GeV < pT < 26 GeV using 1.

In this study Arun Bala examines the implications that Niels Bohr's principle of complementarity holds for fields beyond physics.

The resolution of any imaging microscope is ultimately limited by di?

"e;One would be surprised if Nature had made no use of it.

Derived from a course given at the University of Maryland for advanced graduate students, this book deals with some of the latest developments in our attempts to construct a unified theory of the fundamental interactions of nature.

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 book contains material from the lecture courses conducted at the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute (TASI, Colorado, USA) on high energy physics and cosmology in 2008.

This thesis presents research on novel laboratory-scale synchrotron X-ray sources based on inverse Compton scattering and applications of their X-ray radiation using the Munich Compact Light Source (MuCLS) as an example.

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C* tensor categories are a point of contact where Operator Algebras and Quantum Field Theory meet.

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?

One of the rapidly developing areas of modern experimental nuclear physics is non-accelerator experiments using low-background detectors.

The efficiency of the phase-integral method developed by the present au- thors has been shown both analytically and numerically in many publica- tions.

Special relativity provides the foundations of our knowledge of space and time.

Plasma physics has matured rapidly as a discipline, and now touches on many different research areas, including manufacturing processes.

This book deepens the current understanding of the thermodynamics and kinetics of metallic glass-forming liquids, and their connection with the glass-formation process in terms of fundamental physical metallurgy concepts.

This second edition of Particles in the Dark Universe has been substantially enhanced with several new chapters that delve into crucial aspects of particle physics in the Universe.

Being a Scientist is a comprehensive introduction to the many aspects of scientific life beyond the classroom and laboratory.

The International Conference on Calorimetry in Particle Physics is the major forum for the state-of-the-art developments of calorimetry technologies.

The PASCOS (International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology) series brings together the leading experts and most active young researchers in the closely related fields of elementary particle physics, string theory and cosmology/astrophysics.

This book is intended for graduate students in Physics.

The beta-beam concept for the generation of electron neutrino beams was first proposed by Piero Zucchelli in 2002.

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