"Version: 20201101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Theory and context. 1. Nuclear structure and radioactive decay -- 1.1. Introduction to basic atomic and nuclear structure -- 1.2. Radioactive decay -- 1.3. Alpha decay -- 1.4. Beta decay -- 1.5. Fission -- 1.6. Excited states -- 1.7. Transitions between nuclear excited states : electromagnetic decay modes2. Intera…
"Version: 20200401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Representation of rotations, angular momentum and spin -- 1.1. Rotations in (3, R) -- 1.2. Matrix representations of spin and angular momentum operators -- 1.3. The Pauli spin matrices -- 1.4. Matrix representations of rotations in ket space -- 1.5. Tensor representations for SU(2) -- 1.6. Tensor representations for SO…
"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. A theory of polarized photons -- 1.1. Polarized lightwaves -- 1.2. Polarized photons -- 1.3. Uncertainty in experiments -- 1.4. Dirac bracket notation -- 1.5. Transformation properties of polarizing filter measurements -- 1.6. Multiples of kets -- 1.7. Exercises2. A theory of the Stern-Gerlach experiment for spin-1-2 p…
"Version: 20190901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Preliminary concepts. 1. The overall picture -- 1.1. The atomistic structure of matter -- 1.2. The quantum nature of physical laws -- 1.3. The dual nature of physical phenomena2. Essential quantum mechanics -- 2.1. The wavefunction -- 2.2. Quantum operators -- 2.3. Time evolution -- 2.4. Systems of identical parti…
"Version: 20220601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.0. Using the book -- 0.1. The 'user' -- 0.2. The 'researcher' -- 0.3. The 'developer' -- 0.4. The 'expert'part I. Introduction and background knowledge. 1. Imaging particulate and multiphase systems -- 1.1. Particulate and multiphase systems : why do they matter? -- 1.2. The importance of imaging -- 1.3. Particle and flow…
"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…
"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…
"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: 20151001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- About the author -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Rutherford and evidence for the nuclear atom -- 1.2. The first true nuclear reaction -- 1.3. The role of accelerators -- 1.4. Detection methods -- 1.5. The neutron and the correct composition of nuclei -- 1.6. Nuclear spectroscopy -- 1.7. Higher energies -- 1.8. Gener…