From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmosand a call for a more liberatory practice of science.A Finalist for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardA Fin...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009313872)
An engaging textbook designed for graduate students studying high energy physics. Its innovative order, presenting charge and neutral currents before the gauge field, allows the early introduction of Feynman diagram calculations, giving readers a hea...Daugiau...
This book serves as a thorough reference for students, researchers, and professionals in nuclear engineering and reactor physics, offering a detailed exploration of the core principles behind nuclear reactor theory, neutron transport, neutronic anal...Daugiau...
This book presents a single geometric language for the fundamental physics that has been discovered from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. The first two chapters give a brief summary of the four known fundamental forces, n...Daugiau...
This open access textbook explores the physics of detectors used in high-energy physics and heavy ion physics experiments. In addition to presenting fundamental principles, physics laws, and working techniques, the author delves into various subde...Daugiau...
In order to give an overview over the latest evolutions in atomic, molecular, and optical physics, this volume will promote two important aspects of the field of ultrafast optics and strong fields. In particular, it consists of a review over high har...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 24-Jul-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198846338)
The Philosophy and Physics of Duality discusses what dualities are and the philosophical questions that they raise. This book also examines the main examples of duality-from quantum mechanics and electrodynamics to statistical mechanics, qua...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Jun-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009473507)
This personal account charts our understanding of the strong interactions in particle physics - culminating with the authors discovery of quarks, real particles living in a deeper layer of reality. Science buffs, students, and experts alike will fin...Daugiau...
Particles, Fields, Space-Time: From Thomsons Electron to Higgs Boson explores the concepts, ideas, and experimental results that brought us from the discovery of the first elementary particle in the end of the 19th century to the completion of the...Daugiau...
Particles, Fields, Space-Time: From Thomsons Electron to Higgs Boson explores the concepts, ideas, and experimental results that brought us from the discovery of the first elementary particle in the end of the 19th century to th...Daugiau...
The thrilling and terrifying seventy-year story of the physics that deciphered the atom and created the hydrogen bomb Although Henri Becquerel didnt know it at the time, he changed history in 1895 when he left photographic plates and some uranium r...Daugiau...
This second edition is an updated and extended introduction to the world of Penning traps and provides an overview of the field, particularly for those entering it. The book presents the basics of Penning traps from a fundamental and applied point...Daugiau...
This textbook provides a comprehensive exploration of nuclear energy physics, focusing on the fundamentals of both nuclear physics and fusion energy production. The book includes the basics of quantum mechanics with applications to radioactive dec...Daugiau...
In autumn of 1949, Enrico Fermi returned to Italy after an eleven-year absence to deliver nine lectures, six in Rome and three in Milan. Apart from subsequent limited publication, this material has been little seen by the larger scientific communi...Daugiau...
This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the basic concepts of relativistic cosmology and the standard big bang model of cosmology, along with an introduction to quantum field theory and the standard model of particle physics.Re...Daugiau...
This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the basic concepts of relativistic cosmology and the standard big bang model of cosmology, along with an introduction to quantum field theory and the standard model of particle physics. Readers ar...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 23-Jan-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107009547)
This book explores the fractionalization of particles in physics, how interactions between individual particles and with their background can modify their fundamental quantum states. Covering a large breadth of topics with an example-driven approach,...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 02-Jan-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108472333)
Provides a broad and accessible introduction to quantum field theory and the Standard Model of particle physics, adopting a distinctive pedagogical approach with clear intuitive explanations to complement the mathematical exposition. Includes topics...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Dec-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Rosen Young Adult, ISBN-13: 9781499478143)
Nuclear physics has many practical applications beyond warfare, including in the fields of nuclear medicine, materials engineering, geology, and archaeology. The history of nuclear physics is full of fascinating figures--Rutherford, Geiger, Bohr, Ein...Daugiau...
Nuclear physics has many practical applications beyond warfare, including in the fields of nuclear medicine, materials engineering, geology, and archaeology. The history of nuclear physics is full of fascinating figures--Rutherford, Geiger, Bohr, Ein...Daugiau...
The Standard Model is a modern theory of all interactions. This book describes a new interpretation of empirical relations between particle masses, parameters of the Standard Model and stable mass and energy intervals in nuclear data. The real world...Daugiau...
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the phenomenology surrounding high-energy particle interactions. When particles possess kinetic energy surpassing their rest energy, remarkable phenomena occur. Colliding particles at such high energ...Daugiau...
The book provides an introduction to both theoretical and experimental results on chirality and wobbling in atomic nuclei. It details the achievements in the study of chirality over the past 25 years since the first prediction of this mode of collec...Daugiau...
This third edition of a well-received monograph provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art of detectors and their evolution. In addition to the silicon sensor technology described in the second edition, the book covers the following...Daugiau...
This book highlights the advances made in the field of atomic and molecular collisions both in the experimental and theoretical fronts. The study of the collision of charged particles with neutral target atoms or molecules started many decades ago...Daugiau...
The third edition of Classical Mechanics presents a complete account of the classical mechanics of particles and systems for physics students at the advanced undergraduate level. The textbook evolved from a set of lecture notes for a course...Daugiau...
The incredible story of a powerful and misunderstood energy source on which society turned its back From the pilots seat in the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, to Chernobyls exclusion zone and to the site in Fin...Daugiau...
This textbook offers a clear and concise introduction to the main aspects of neutrino physics, providing the foundational knowledge necessary for research in both theoretical and experimental fields. It presents field theory concepts in a highly s...Daugiau...
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. These additions encompass the role of primordial black ho...Daugiau...
This is a problem-oriented introduction to the main ideas, methods, and problems needed to form a basic understanding of the theory of strong interactions. Each section contains solid but concise technical foundations to key concepts of the theory...Daugiau...
This book is suitable for those taking courses on particle physics, general relativity, and cosmology. The birth of the Universe, and its subsequent evolution, is an exciting blend of Cosmology, Particle Physics and Thermodynamics....Daugiau...
An Introduction to Experimental Nuclear Reactions is a book with a concise and simple approach to the subject of experimental nuclear physics. The subject being very technical, it is dealt with in a lucid way so that the...Daugiau...
Two leading physicists discuss the importance of the Higgs Boson, the future of particle physics, and the mysteries of the universe yet to be unraveled. Starting where Nobel Laureate Leon Ledermans bestseller The God Particle left off, this incis...Daugiau...
This book presents a comprehensive exploration of unresolved mysteries in particle physics, delving into cutting-edge research aimed at unraveling the enigmatic facets of the Standard Model (SM). It tackles fundamental questions surrounding neutri...Daugiau...
This monograph explores the profound implications of neutrino discovery and their minuscule masses on our understanding of the Universe. It delves into the fundamental composition of matter, revealing that neutrinos, electrons, and positrons are t...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Oct-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Institute of Physics Publishing, ISBN-13: 9780750356466)
Nuclear structure has two extreme regimes: one where the nuclear structure is collective and driven by all the protons and neutrons acting coherently, and one where the nuclear structure is dominated by single nucleons. Here, we follow the latter...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Sep-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789811295812)
This monograph features the authors outstanding contributions to the field. The first four chapters provide an excellent review of the fundamental subjects that are crucial to understanding laser-molecule interactions, with the highlight being his...Daugiau...
This open access book compiles the proceedings of the inaugural African Conference on High Energy Physics (ACHEP), which took place in Rabat and Kenitra, Morocco, from October 23 to 27, 2023. The conference brought together specialized scientists...Daugiau...
This book shows Michael Kidgers early work while he was a student at Imperial College London before becoming a world-renowned, highly sought-after lecturer of optical design throughout the world. Michaels course notes on atomic physics, in his own...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 29-Aug-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781786307330)
Nuclear Physics 2 explores the applications of various radioisotopes for dating and nuclear medicine imaging. It introduces the theoretical and experimental facts from the observation of the red shift in the spectrum of galaxies (1913), and...Daugiau...
Nuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity aims to develop the field of nuclear humanities and the powerful ability of literary and cultural representations of science and catastrophe to shape the meaning of...Daugiau...
The fifth edition of this well-established, highly regarded two-volume set continues to provide a fundamental introduction to advanced particle physics while incorporating substantial new experimental results, especially in the areas of the...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 18-Jul-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009479288)
Who were the German scientists who worked on atomic bombs during World War II for Hitlers regime? And how did they justify themselves afterwards? Examining the global influence of the German uranium project and the postwar reaction to the scientist...Daugiau...
