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A modern primer in particle and nuclear physics /

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Suitable for undergraduate and graduate physics students, this unique textbook provides an ideal entry point into particle, nuclear, and astroparticle physics and presents the modern concepts, theories, and experiments that explain the elementary constituents and basic forces of the universe.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Terranova, Francesco (Physicist) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Series:Oxford Academic.
Subjects:
Particles (Nuclear physics)
Elementary Particles
Particules (Physique nucléaire)
particle physics.
Astrophysics.
SCIENCE.
Nuclear.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Setting the scene
  • 2 Scattering and decay
  • 3 Measurements in particle physics
  • 4 Accelerators and colliders
  • 5 Symmetries and anti-matter
  • 6 Electromagnetic interactions
  • 7 The modern theory of strong interactions
  • 8 Flavor symmetries and the quark models
  • 9 From QCD to nuclear physics
  • 10 Weak interactions
  • 11 Radioactivity and cosmic engines
  • 12 The electroweak theory
  • 13 At the forefront of the Standard Model
  • A Special relativity
  • B The principles of quantum mechanics
  • References
  • Index.