"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…
"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: 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: 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: 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: 20251201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Optical microscopy and optical crystallography. 1. Introduction to optical microscope and image formation -- 1.1. Introduction to light microscopy : the need for a microscope -- 1.2. Historical tour of light microscopy -- 1.3. Image formation in a microscope and resolution -- 1.4. Polarized light microscopypart II…
"Version: 20180401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Optical information security systems based on a gyrator wavelet transform -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Theory -- 1.3. Applications of a gyrator wavelet transform -- 1.4. Conclusion2. Optical one-way hash function -- part A. Introduction to the one-way hash function -- A.1. One-way hash function--acquire the 'fingerprin…
"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Extreme events in forced oscillatory media in zero, one and two dimensions -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Zero dimensions -- 1.3. One dimension -- 1.4. Two dimensions -- 1.5. Conclusion2. Extreme waves in stimulated backscattering and frequency conversion processes -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Fundamental rogue wave solu…
"Version: 20170901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Phase estimation : spatial fringe analysis -- 2.1. Background -- 2.2. Carrier fringe pattern demodulation -- 2.3. Closed fringe pattern demodulation3. Fringe denoising and phase unwrapping -- 3.1. Real sinusoidal fringe pattern denoising -- 3.2. Phase fringe pattern denoising -- 3.3. Phase…