Nuclear Physics category: 811 books
John von Neumann
The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
John von Neumann was a Jewish refugee from Hungary considered a “genius” like fellow Hungarians Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner and Edward Teller, who played key roles developing the A-bomb at Los Alamos during World War II. As a mathematician at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study (where Einstein...
by Sheldon Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Adolph Hitler has assumed power in Germany. A brilliant theoretical and experimental physicist has clandestinely discovered the secret of nuclear energy and the nuclear bomb. No other physicist has come close to this realization. The German physicist is prepared to deliver this secret to his Fuehrer...
A Tour of the Subatomic Zoo
A Guide to Particle Physics
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
A Tour of the Subatomic Zoo: A guide to particle physics is a brief and ambitious expedition into the remarkably simple ingredients of all the wonders of nature. With hardly a mathematical formula, Professor Cindy Schwarz clearly explains the language and much of the substance of elementary particle...
New Results and Actual Problems in Particle & Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology
Proceedings of XXIXth International Workshop on High Energy Physics
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
This unique volume contains the materials of the XXIXth International Workshop on High Energy Physics. The content of the volume is much wider than just high-energy physics and actually concerns all the most fundamental areas of modern physics research: high-energy physics proper, gravitation and...
Fusion
The Energy of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Fusion: The Energy of the Universe, 2e is an essential reference providing basic principles of fusion energy from its history to the issues and realities progressing from the present day energy crisis. The book provides detailed developments and applications for researchers entering the field of...
Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology
Volume 9: Technology and Applications of Advanced Accelerator Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Since its invention in the 1920s, particle accelerators have made tremendous progress in accelerator science, technology and applications. However, the fundamental acceleration principle, namely, to apply an external radiofrequency (RF) electric field to accelerate charged particles, remains unchanged....
by Federico Bribiesca Argomedo, Emmanuel Witrant, Christophe Prieur
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Control of the Safety Factor Profile in a Tokamak uses Lyapunov techniques to address a challenging problem for which even the simplest physically relevant models are represented by nonlinear, time-dependent, partial differential equations (PDEs). This is because of the spatiotemporal dynamics of...
by Gary P. Zank
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
“Transport Processes in Space Physics and Astrophysics” is aimed at graduate level students to provide the necessary mathematical and physics background to understand the transport of gases, charged particle gases, energetic charged particles, turbulence, and radiation in an astrophysical...
Radiation Mechanics
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Mechanics is the science of studying energy and forces, and their effects on matter. It involves mechanisms, kinematics, cross sections, and transport. Radiation mechanism describes how various types of radiation interact with different targets (atoms and nuclei). The book addresses the above four...
Binding Energy of Strongly Deformed Radionuclides
Penning-Trap Mass Spectrometry and Mean-Field Theoretical Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
This thesis reports results of precision mass spectrometry of exotic nuclides as a means of elucidating their structure. The work was performed with the ISOLTRAP spectrometer at CERN’s ISOLDE facility. The author furthermore offers an overview of existing techniques used in Penning-trap mass spectrometry...
From My Vast Repertoire ...
Guido Altarelli's Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Guido Altarelli was a leading figure in 20th century particle physics. His scientific contributions and leadership played a key role in the development of the Standard Model of fundamental interactions, as well as the current search for new physics beyond it, both at and beyond CERN. This book is...
by Graham Shaw, Brian R. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
An essential introduction to particle physics, with coverage ranging from the basics through to the very latest developments, in an accessible and carefully structured text.
Particle Physics: Third Edition is a revision of a highly regarded introduction to particle physics. In its two previous...
by Weston M. Stacey
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
This revised and enlarged second edition of the popular textbook and reference contains comprehensive treatments of both the established foundations of magnetic fusion plasma physics and of the newly developing areas of active research. It concludes with a look ahead to fusion power reactors of the...
by Takahiro Doi
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This thesis focuses on an unresolved problem in particle and nuclear physics: the relation between two important non-perturbative phenomena in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) – quark confinement and chiral symmetry breaking. The author develops a new analysis method in the lattice QCD, and derives...