UID:
almahu_9949199575902882
Format:
XII, 393 p. 210 illus.
,
online resource.
Edition:
3rd ed. 2002.
ISBN:
9783662050231
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. In the third English edition a new section on neutrino oscillations and one on nuclear matter at high temperatures bridges the fields of 'nuclear and particle physics' and 'modern astrophysics and cosmology'. The concise text is based on lectures held at the University of Heidelberg and is well suited for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses. It 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.
In:
Springer Nature eBook
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783540438236
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783662050248
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-662-05023-1
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05023-1
