"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Basics of elementary particle physics2. Jet algorithms -- 2.1. Cone or sequential algorithms? -- 2.2. Common issues with jet algorithms -- 2.3. Further jet clustering procedures3. QCD for jet physics -- 3.1. Fixed-order QCD calculations -- 3.2. QCD at all orders -- 3.3. At the boundary of perturbat…
"Version: 20240501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. General properties of the nucleus -- 2. Radioactivity -- 3. Nuclear models -- 4. Nuclear reaction -- 5. Nuclear fission and fusion -- 6. Deuteron problem -- 7. Scattering -- 8. Nature of nuclear force.Full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers.The topics of nuclear physics, particle physics a…
"Version: 20241101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction to particle physics -- 2. Particle accelerators -- 3. Particle detectors -- 4. Units of particle physics -- 5. A brief introduction to the Standard Model -- 6. Study of interactions through Feynman diagram -- 7. Classification of particles and interactions of nature -- 8. Conservation laws and symmetry -- …
"Version: 20241001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Where are the shell model states found in nuclei? -- 1.1. Basic features of the model -- 1.2. What constitutes a shell model state? -- 1.3. Nuclei in doubly closed-shell regions -- 1.4. Exercises -- 1.5. Video-based tutorials2. How widely are shell model states seen in nuclei? -- 2.1. A case study view : the In (Z = 49…
"Version: 20170601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 20-21).Introduction : technologies for particle physics -- Medical applications of particle physics -- Particle detectors for medical imaging -- Charpak and the multiwire proportional chamber -- Townsend and PET imaging -- Hadron therapy -- The PIMMS collaboration -- ENLIGHT : collaboration is key -- Medical imagin…
"Version: 20171001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 19-20)1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Current directions -- 4. Outlook.Following the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, particle physics has entered its most exciting and crucial period for over 50 years. In this book, I first summarise our current understanding of particle physics, and why this knowledge…
"Version: 20190801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Groundwork -- 1.1. Natural units -- 1.2. Particle content -- 1.3. Relativistic kinematics2. Collisions -- 2.1. Effecting collisions -- 2.2. Measure of collisions -- 2.3. Coordinates -- 2.4. Types of collisions3. Analysis objects -- 3.1. Detector objects -- 3.2. Jets and making them -- 3.3. Trigger -- 3.4. Preparing the…
"Version: 20141201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Author biography -- Glossary of acronyms -- Introduction -- Symmetries : discrete and continuous -- Hadronic physics : the quark-parton model -- The new particles : discovery and study -- The standard model and beyond : where we are and where we are going -- Appendix A. Quantum mechanics -- Appendix B. Scatteri…
"Version: 20150501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Author biography -- The discovery of the atomic nucleus -- The nuclear radius -- Nuclear masses -- Radioactive decay -- Nuclear stability -- The nuclear shell model -- Elementary particles -- Relativistic kinematics -- Accelerators and detectors -- The quark model -- Conservation laws -- Hadronic interactions -…