Mathematical Physics category: 1075 books
by Shota Tsiskaridze
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
This PhD thesis focuses on the search for flavor-changing neutral currents in the decay of a top quark to an up-type quark (q = u, c) and the Standard Model Higgs boson, where the Higgs boson decays to bb. Further, the thesis presents the combination of this search for top quark pair events with other...
Time-Dependent CP Violation Measurements
Analyses of Neutral B Meson to Double-Charm Decays at the Japanese Belle Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
This thesis describes a high-quality, high-precision method for the data analysis of an interesting elementary particle reaction. The data was collected at the Japanese B-meson factory KEKB with the Belle detector, one of the most successful large-scale experiments worldwide. CP violation is a subtle...
Polarization and CP Violation Measurements
Angular Analysis of B -> ?K* Decays and Search for CP Violation at the Belle Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
This thesis describes the thorough analysis of the rare B meson decay into ϕ K* on data taken by the Belle Collaboration at the B-meson-factory KEKB over 10 years. This reaction is very interesting, because it in principle allows the observation of CP-violation effects. In the Standard Model however,...
by Barton Zwiebach
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
String theory made understandable. Barton Zwiebach is once again faithful to his goal of making string theory accessible to undergraduates. He presents the main concepts of string theory in a concrete and physical way to develop intuition before formalism, often through simplified and illustrative...
Superstring Theory: Volume 2, Loop Amplitudes, Anomalies and Phenomenology
25th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Twenty-five years ago, Michael Green, John Schwarz, and Edward Witten wrote two volumes on string theory. Published during a period of rapid progress in this subject, these volumes were highly influential for a generation of students and researchers. Despite the immense progress that has been made...
Molecular Symmetry, Super-Rotation, and Semiclassical Motion
New Ideas for Solving Old Problems
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This book presents a range of fundamentally new approaches to solving problems involving traditional molecular models. Fundamental molecular symmetry is shown to open new avenues for describing molecular dynamics beyond standard perturbation techniques. Traditional concepts used to describe molecular...
Phase Transitions
Modern Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
This book provides a comprehensive review of the theory of phase transitions and its modern applications, based on the five pillars of the modern theory of phase transitions: the Ising model, mean field, scaling, renormalization group and universality. This expanded second edition includes, along...
Fluctuating Nonlinear Oscillators
From Nanomechanics to Quantum Superconducting Circuits
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The book provides a unifying insight into fluctuation phenomena in a broad variety of vibrational systems of current interest. It consists of individual chapters written by leading experts in the field. The chapters are self-contained and complement each other. The ongoing rapid development of well-characterized...
Non-Perturbative Field Theory
From Two Dimensional Conformal Field Theory to QCD in Four Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
Providing a new perspective on quantum field theory, this book gives a pedagogical and up-to-date exposition of non-perturbative methods in relativistic quantum field theory and introduces the reader to modern research work in theoretical physics. It describes in detail non-perturbative methods in...
by Markus Q. Huber
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Quarks are the main constituents of protons and neutrons and hence are important building blocks of all the matter that surrounds us. However, quarks have the intriguing property that they never appear as isolated single particles but only in bound states. This phenomenon is called confinement and...
by John D Ramshaw
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
This book presents an innovative unified approach to the statistical foundations of entropy and the fundamentals of equilibrium statistical mechanics. These intimately related subjects are often developed in a fragmented historical manner which obscures the essential simplicity of their logical structure....
by James Emil Avery, John Scales Avery
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Hyperspherical harmonics are extremely useful in nuclear physics and reactive scattering theory. However, their use has been confined to specialists with very strong backgrounds in mathematics. This book aims to change the theory of hyperspherical harmonics from an esoteric field, mastered by specialists,...
Bryce DeWitt's Lectures on Gravitation
Edited by Steven M. Christensen
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Bryce DeWitt, a student of Nobel Laureate Julian Schwinger, was himself one of the towering figures in 20th century physics, particularly renowned for his seminal contributions to quantum field theory, numerical relativity and quantum gravity. In late 1971 DeWitt gave a course on gravitation at Stanford...
Bayesian Inference
Data Evaluation and Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
This new edition offers a comprehensive introduction to the analysis of data using Bayes rule. It generalizes Gaussian error intervals to situations in which the data follow distributions other than Gaussian. This is particularly useful when the observed parameter is barely above the background or...