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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....
by Kirsty Elizabeth Duffy
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
This thesis reports the measurement of muon neutrino and antineutrino disappearance and electron neutrino and antineutrino appearance in a muon neutrino and antineutrino beam using the T2K experiment. It describes a result in neutrino physics that is a pioneering indication of charge-parity (CP) violation...
Introduction to Particle Cosmology
The Standard Model of Cosmology and its Open Problems
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
This book introduces the basic concepts of particle cosmology and covers all the main aspects of the Big Bang Model (expansion of the Universe, Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, Cosmic Microwave Background, large scale structures) and the search for new physics (inflation, baryogenesis, dark matter, dark...
by Elise Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2012
A major outstanding problem in physics is understanding the nature of the dark energy that is driving the accelerating expansion of the Universe. This thesis makes a significant contribution by demonstrating, for the first time, using state-of-the-art computer simulations, that the interpretation...
Search for Dark Matter with ATLAS
Using Events with a Highly Energetic Jet and Missing Transverse Momentum in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 8 TeV
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
This thesis describes in detail a search for weakly interacting massive particles as possible dark matter candidates, making use of so-called mono-jet events. It includes a detailed description of the run-1 system, important operational challenges, and the upgrade for run-2. The nature of dark matter,...
by Jérôme Gleyzes
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
This thesis presents several significant new results that shed light on two major puzzles of modern cosmology: the nature of inflation, the very early phase of the universe that is thought to have given rise to the large-scale structures that we observe today; and that of the current accelerated expansion....
From Special Relativity to Feynman Diagrams
A Course in Theoretical Particle Physics for Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This book, now in its second edition, provides an introductory course on theoretical particle physics with the aim of filling the gap that exists between basic courses of classical and quantum mechanics and advanced courses of (relativistic) quantum mechanics and field theory. After a concise but...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
This anthology of the very latest research on truth features the work of recognized luminaries in the field, put together following a rigorous refereeing process. Along with an introduction outlining the central issues in the field, it provides a unique and unrivaled view of contemporary work on the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Merleau-Ponty in contemporary perspective: this was the theme of the conference at the Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K. U. L. ) from 29 November to 1 December 1991. Thirty years after Merleau Ponty's untimely death, it seemed appropriate to bring together scholars from...
Knowing from Words
Western and Indian Philosophical Analysis of Understanding and Testimony
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Never before, in any anthology, have contemporary epistemologists and philosophers of language come together to address the single most neglected important issue at the confluence of these two branches of philosophy, namely: Can we know facts from reliable reports? Besides Hume's subversive discussion...
Interpretations and Causes
New Perspectives on Donald Davidson’s Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Many articles and books dealing with Donald Davidson's philosophy are dedicated to the papers and ideas Davidson put forward in the `sixties and `seventies. In the last two decades, however, Davidson has continued to work in many areas of philosophy, offering new contributions, many of which are highly...
Medical Wisdom and Doctoring
The Art of 21st Century Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Medical Wisdom and Doctoring aims to fill a need in the current medical literature for a resource that presents some of the classic wisdom of medicine, presented in a manner that can help today's physicians achieve their full potential. This book details the lessons every physician should have learned...
by Biljana Arandelovic
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
This book provides insight into the significant area of public art and memorials in Berlin. Through diverse selected examples, grouped according to their basic character and significance, the most important art projects produced in the period since World War II are presented and discussed. Both as...
Dutch Studies
An annual review of the language, literature and life of the Low Countries
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The language of some eighteen million people living at the junction of the two great cultures of western Europe, Romance and Germanic, is now taught by some 262 teachers at I43 universities outside the Netherlands, ineluding Finland, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Czecho slovakia, Portugal, Japan, Malaysia...