"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: 20220601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction to the history of nuclear reactions and motivation for this book -- 1.1. Background -- 1.2. Nuclear atom -- 1.3. The first transmutation reaction -- 1.4. Discovery of neutron -- 1.5. Artificial radioactivity -- 1.6. Strong nuclear force -- 1.7. New isotopes -- 1.8. Discovery of fission -- 1.9. Self-sustain…
"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: 20210207"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. What we probably know. 1. The Standard Models--overview and perspective -- 1.1. The large number of solutions to string/M-theory is not an obstacle to finding a theory that describes nature -- 1.2. String theorists study theories, not phenomena -- 1.3. Nutcracker -- 1.4. Why the Standard Model is true--it will be …
"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: 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…
"Version: 20230801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Statement of the problem -- 1.2. A brief review of electromagnetic theory -- 1.3. Laser pulses -- 1.4. The motion of a charged particle in an electromagnetic field -- 1.5. Gauge transformations -- 1.6. The dinuclear system in a laser field -- 1.7. Characterization of laser-nucleus interaction in an…
"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: 202108"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Gross properties of nuclei -- 1.1. Exercises2. Nuclear excitation patterns -- 2.1. Basic features of excited states in even-even nuclei -- 2.2. A basic symmetry of nuclei : isospin -- 2.3. Nuclear data compilations and evaluations -- 2.4. Exercises3. Nuclear deformation and rotations -- 3.1. The rotor model for nuclei : …
"Version: 20190101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Non-relativistic energy density functionals -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Energy density functional kernels -- 1.3. Pairing and Coulomb functionals2. Covariant energy density functionals -- 2.1. Relativistic description of quantum systems -- 2.2. Symmetry properties of QCD -- 2.3. Effective Lagrangians for nuclear syste…