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Author / Creator:Amsler, C., 1947- author.
Uniform title:Kern- und Teilchenphysik. English
Imprint:Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2015]
Description:1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).
Language:English
Series:[IOP release 2]
IOP expanding physics, 2053-2563
IOP (Series). Release 2.
IOP expanding physics.
Subject:
Nuclear physics.
Particles (Nuclear physics)
Nuclear physics.
Particles (Nuclear physics)
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11319888
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Other authors / contributors:Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.
ISBN:9780750311403
9780750311427
Notes:"Version: 20150501"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
Also available in print.
Claude Amsler studied experimental physics at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. As a Research Associate he worked at Queen Mary College in London, TRIUMF in Vancouver, the University of New Mexico and Brookhaven National Laboratory. After a CERN fellowship and a brief time at the University of Munich he joined the Physics Institute of the University of Zurich, where he became Full Professor of Physics in 1999. He has supervised 40 PhD and Master theses. He is now Professor Emeritus and senior staff at the Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics of the University of Bern. His main fields of interest are strong interaction physics and meson spectroscopy. He is a member of the CMS Collaboration and of the Particle Data Group. He is currently involved in antihydrogen experiments at CERN.
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Summary:This book provides an introductory course on Nuclear and Particle physics for undergraduate and early-graduate students, which the author has taught for several years at the University of Zurich. It contains fundamentals on both nuclear physics and particle physics. Emphasis is given to the discovery and history of developments in the field, and is experimentally/phenomenologically oriented. It contains detailed derivations of formulae such as 2- 3 body phase space, the Weinberg-Salam model, and neutrino scattering. Originally published in German as 'Kern- und Teilchenphysik', several sections have been added to this new English version to cover very modern topics, including updates on neutrinos, the Higgs boson, the top quark and bottom quark physics.
Target Audience:Advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers in the fields of both nuclear and particle physics.
Other form:Print version: 9780750311427
Standard no.:10.1088/978-0-7503-1140-3
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Author biography
  • The discovery of the atomic nucleus
  • The nuclear radius
  • Nuclear masses
  • Radioactive decay
  • Nuclear stability
  • The nuclear shell model
  • Elementary particles
  • Relativistic kinematics
  • Accelerators and detectors
  • The quark model
  • Conservation laws
  • Hadronic interactions
  • Weak interactions
  • Neutrinos
  • The Dirac equation
  • The electroweak interaction
  • Applications of the standard model
  • Deep inelastic electron-proton scattering
  • The K⁰-K̄⁰ system
  • The B⁰-B̄⁰ system
  • Appendices
  • A. SU(3) wave functions of the light ground state mesons
  • B. Mass formula
  • C. SU(3) wave functions of light ground state baryons
  • D. The CKM matrix and CP violation
  • E. Infinitesimal gauge field transformation
  • F. Glossary.

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