Nuclear Physics category: 811 books
by Ahmed Ali, Luciano Maiani, Antonio D. Polosa
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
This work summarises the salient features of current and planned experiments into multiquark hadrons, describing various inroads to accommodate them within a theoretical framework. At a pedagogical level, authors review the salient aspects of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of strong interactions,...
by Lene Kristian Bryngemark
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
This thesis describes the use of the angular distributions of the most energetic dijets in data recorded by the ATLAS experiment, at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the goal of which is to search for phenomena beyond what the current theory of Particle Physics (the Standard Model) can describe....
The Large Hadron Collider
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
It may at first seem that the world of subatomic physics is far removed from our every day lives. Isn’t it all just a waste of time and taxpayers' money? Hopefully, all who read this book will come to a different conclusion. Collider physics is all about our origins, and this aspect alone makes...
by Roscoe B White
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
This graduate level textbook develops the theory of magnetically confined plasma, with the aim of bringing the reader to the level of current research in the field of thermonuclear fusion. It begins with the basic concepts of magnetic field description, plasma equilibria and stability, and goes on...
Statistical Analysis Techniques in Particle Physics
Fits, Density Estimation and Supervised Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Modern analysis of HEP data needs advanced statistical tools to separate signal from background. This is the first book which focuses on machine learning techniques. It will be of interest to almost every high energy physicist, and, due to its coverage, suitable for students.
Constructing Reality
Quantum Theory and Particle Physics
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Questions of the fundamental nature of matter continue to inspire and engage our imagination. However, the exciting new concepts of strings, supersymmetry and exotic matter build on ideas that are well known to physicists but mysterious and puzzling to people outside of these research fields. Covering...
From the Universe to the Elementary Particles
A First Introduction to Cosmology and the Fundamental Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
In this book, the author leads the reader, step by step and without any advanced mathematics, to a clear understanding of the foundations of modern elementary particle physics and cosmology. He also addresses current and controversial questions on topics such as string theory. The book contains gentle...
Cosmology with MATLAB
With Companion Media Pack
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
This volume makes explicit use of the synergy between cosmology and high energy physics, for example, supersymmetry and dark matter, or nucleosynthesis and the baryon-to-photon ratio. In particular the exciting possible connection between the recently discovered Higgs scalar and the scalar field responsible...
Beams and Accelerators with MATLAB
With Companion Media Pack
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
This book explores a first introduction to particle beams and accelerators. The text uses the suite of tools made available in the MATLAB package. Since many colleges have a site wide license, these tools are often freely available to students. A brief introduction to those tools is made initially....
Magnetic Reconnection
Concepts and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
This book provides an overview of recent research highlights in the main areas of application of magnetic reconnection (MR), including planetary, solar and magnetospheric physics and astrophysics. It describes how research on magnetic reconnection, especially concerning the Earth's magnetosphere,...
by Werner Ebeling, Vladimir E. Fortov, Vladimir Filinov
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
The aim of this book is the pedagogical exploration of the basic principles of quantum-statistical thermodynamics as applied to various states of matter – ranging from rare gases to astrophysical matter with high-energy density. The reader will learn in this work that thermodynamics and quantum...
Top Quark Pair Production
Precision Measurements of the Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section in the Single Lepton Channel with the ATLAS Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Before any kind of new physics discovery could be made at the LHC, a precise understanding and measurement of the Standard Model of particle physics' processes was necessary. The book provides an introduction to top quark production in the context of the Standard Model and presents two such precise...
Spin Correlations in tt Events from pp Collisions
Measured at √s = 7 TeV in the Lepton+Jets Final State with the ATLAS Detector
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
This thesis introduces readers to the Standard Model, the top quark and its properties, before explaining the concept of spin correlation measurement. The first measurement of top quark spin correlations at the LHC in the lepton+jets decay channel is presented.
As the heaviest elementary particle,...
by Yutaro Iiyama
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
This Ph.D. thesis is a search for physics beyond the standard model (SM) of particle physics, which successfully describes the interactions and properties of all known elementary particles. However, no particle exists in the SM that can account for the dark matter, which makes up about one quarter...