Nuclear Physics category: 811 books
Elementary Particle Physics
Quantum Field Theory and Particles V1
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Meeting the need for a coherently written and comprehensive compendium combining field theory and particle physics for advanced students and researchers, this book directly links the theory to the experiments. It is clearly divided into two sections covering approaches to field theory and the standard...
by Michael Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The effective theory of quantum gravity coupled to models of particle physics is being probed by cutting edge experiments in both high energy physics (searches for extra dimensions) and cosmology (testing models of inflation). This thesis derives new bounds that may be placed on these models both...
Particle Panic!
How Popular Media and Popularized Science Feed Public Fears of Particle Accelerator Experiments
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
From novels and short stories to television and film, popular media has made a cottage industry of predicting the end of the world will be caused by particle accelerators. Rather than allay such fears, public pronouncements by particle scientists themselves often unwittingly fan the flames of hysteria.
This...
The Boy Who Played with Fusion
Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
This story of a child prodigy and his unique upbringing is “an engrossing journey to the outer realms of science and parenting” (Paul Greenberg, author of Four Fish).
A PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist
Like many young children, Taylor Wilson dreamed of becoming...
Fallout
Conspiracy, Cover-Up, and the Deceitful Case for the Atom Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
The justification for the atomic bomb was simple: it would defeat Hitler and end the Second World War faster, saving lives. The reality was different.
Fallout dismantles the conventional story of why the atom bomb was built. Peter Watson has found new documents showing that long before the...
The Manhattan Project
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
The ramifications of the Manhattan Project are with us to this day. The atomic bombs that came out of it brought an end to the war in the Pacific, but at a heavy loss of life in Japan and the opening of a Pandora's box that has tested international relations. This book traces the history of the Manhattan...
Measurement of the D0 Meson Production in Pb–Pb and p–Pb Collisions
A Study Performed with the ALICE Experiment at the LHC
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
This thesis presents the first measurement of charmed D0 meson production relative to the reaction plane in Pb–Pb collisions at the center-of-mass energy per nucleon-nucleon collision of √sNN = 2.76 TeV. It also showcases the measurement of the D0 production in p–Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02...
by J O Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
This book is informative, entertaining, educational and thought provoking for scientists of all ages professional, amateur and enthusiast alike.
Travel with Reason and Intuition on a journey of the mind along a number of
series and infinities.
Stumble almost by accident on...
by Pralhad Ron, Jane Lehr
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Examines the foundation of pulse power technology in detail to optimize the technology in modern engineering settings
Pulsed power technologies could be an answer to many cutting-edge applications. The challenge is in how to develop this high-power/high-energy technology to fit current market...
by Michael F. L'Annunziata
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2007
Radioactivity: Introduction and History provides an introduction to radioactivity from natural and artificial sources on earth and radiation of cosmic origins. This book answers many questions for the student, teacher, and practitioner as to the origins, properties, detection and measurement, and...
Helium Nano-bubble Formation in Tungsten
Measurement with Grazing-Incidence Small Angle X-ray Scattering
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
This PhD thesis characterises the damage that occurs in tungsten when it is exposed to a fusion-like environment. The book presents pioneering work on the use of grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS) to measure nano-bubble formation in tungsten exposed to helium plasma. The phenomenon...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Internal Conversion Processes documents the proceedings of the International Conference on the Internal Conversion Process held at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee on May 10-13, 1965.
This compilation discusses the internal conversion theory; experimental methods for the determination...
by L. Boetter-Jensen, S.W.S. McKeever, A.G. Wintle
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2003
Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) has become the technique of choice for many areas of radiation dosimetry. The technique is finding widespread application in a variety of radiation dosimetry fields, including personal monitoring, environmental monitoring, retrospective dosimetry (including...
by Susanne Mertens
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Neutrinos continue to be the most mysterious and, arguably, the most fascinating particles of the Standard Model as their intrinsic properties such as absolute mass scale and CP properties are unknown. The open question of the absolute neutrino mass scale will be addressed with unprecedented accuracy...