UID:
almahu_9949199170402882
Format:
XII, 396 p.
,
online resource.
Edition:
4th ed. 2004.
ISBN:
9783662054321
Content:
This well-known introductory textbook gives a uniform presentation of nuclear and particle physics from an experimental point of view. The first part, Analysis, is devoted to disentangling the substructure of matter. This part shows that experiments designed to uncover the substructures of nuclei and nucleons have a similar conceptual basis, and lead to the present picture of all matter being constructed from a small number of elementary building blocks and a small number of fundamental interactions. The second part, Synthesis, shows how the elementary particles may be combined to build hadrons and nuclei. The fundamental interactions, which are responsible for the forces in all systems, become less and less evident in increasingly complex systems. Such systems are in fact dominated by many-body phenomena. A section on neutrino oscillations and one on nuclear matter at high temperatures bridge the field of "nuclear and particle physics" and "modern astrophysics and cosmology". The fourth edition includes new developments, in particular a new section on the double beta decay including a discussion of the possibility for a neutrinoless decay and its implications for the standard model. The concise text is based on lectures held at the University of Heidelberg. It has been translated into many languages and has become a standard reference for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses and includes numerous exercises with worked answers.
Note:
1 Hors d'œuvre -- I Analysis: The Building Blocks of Matter -- 2 Global Properties of Nuclei -- 3 Nuclear Stability -- 4 Scattering -- 5 Geometric Shapes of Nuclei -- 6 Elastic Scattering off Nucleons -- 7 Deep Inelastic Scattering -- 8 Quarks, Gluons, and the Strong Interaction -- 9 Particle Production in e+e? Collisions -- 10 Phenomenology of the Weak Interaction -- 11 Exchange Bosons of the Weak Interaction -- 12 The Standard Model -- II Synthesis: Composite Systems -- 13 Quarkonia -- 14 Mesons Made from Light Quarks -- 15 The Baryons -- 16 The Nuclear Force -- 17 The Structure of Nuclei -- 18 Collective Nuclear Excitations -- 19 Nuclear Thermodynamics -- 20 Many-Body Systems in the Strong Interaction -- A Appendix -- A.1 Accelerators -- A.2 Detectors -- A.3 Combining Angular Momenta -- A.4 Physical Constants -- Solutions to the Problems -- References.
In:
Springer Nature eBook
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783540201687
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783662054338
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-662-05432-1
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05432-1
