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Particle-antiparticle asymmetry in the B meson system /
"Version: 20200901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Discrete symmetries -- 3. Antiparticles and CP symmetry -- 3.1. Elementary particles -- 3.2. Dirac equation and antiparticles -- 3.3. Left- and right-handed particles -- 3.4. CP transformation of Dirac spinors4. CP violation in the quark sector -- 4.1. Lagrangian of weak interaction -- 4.2. Flavor mi…
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A practical introduction to beam physics and particle accelerators /
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Rays, matrices, and transfer maps -- 1.1. Paraxial approximation -- 1.2. Thin lenses -- 1.3. Thick lenses -- 1.4. Transfer maps -- 1.5. Computer resources2. Linear magnetic lenses and deflectors -- 2.1. Magnetic rigidity, momentum, and cyclotron frequency -- 2.2. Solenoid focusing -- 2.3. Quadrupole focusing -- 2.4. Th…
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Hadronic jets :an introduction /
"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…
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Small particle ring accelerators and Paul traps :case studies and prospects /
"Version: 20231001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Appendix A. Physics scaling of particle ring accelerators -- Appendix B. Computer codes.1. Space charge and other physics at the University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER) -- 1.1. UMER lattice and injection -- 1.2. Emittance, space charge and betatron tune shifts -- 1.3. Closed orbit -- 1.4. Betatron resonances and space…
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Tetraquarks and pentaquarks /
"Version: 20180701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 24-26).Introduction -- The Standard Model and quantum chromodynamics -- Hadrons and the quark model -- Different types of hadrons -- Background -- Understanding hadrons through their quantum numbers -- Discovery of the J/[psi] meson -- Resonances, Breit-Wigner lineshape and phase changes -- Controversy over claimed…
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What's next for particle physics? /
"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…
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Hidden physics at the LHC /
"Version: 20180701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (page 17).Introduction -- Background -- Hunting new physics at the LHC -- Hunting the Higgs -- Current directions -- Finding super-symmetry -- Generalising searches -- Tales of the unexpected -- Outlook.With the discovery of the Higgs boson our picture of the subatomic world--the Standard Model--is complete. But looking a…
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Experimental particle physics :understanding the measurements and searches at…
"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…
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Practical collider physics /
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.8. Data analysis basics -- 8.1. Data-taking -- 8.2. Object definition and selection -- 8.3. Event selection -- 8.4. Observables -- 8.5. Performance optimisation -- 8.6. Estimating backgrounds and uncertainties9. Resonance searches -- 9.1. Types of resonance -- 9.2. Anatomy of a diphoton resonance search -- 9.3. Jet resonanc…
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A multidisciplinary approach to quantum field theory.
"Version: 20221001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction to quantum field theory -- 1.1. Natural units -- 1.2. The simple harmonic oscillator in classical mechanics -- 1.3. The harmonic oscillator in quantum mechanics -- 1.4. Photons -- 1.5. Paths to quantum field theory2. Quantum mechanics and path integrals -- 2.1. Classical mechanics and fields -- 2…
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