"Version: 20161201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Addendum for the third edition -- Introduction -- Preface -- 1. Matter in the early 20th century -- 1.1. Parts of the atom -- 1.2. Radiation -- 1.3. Some conservation laws -- 1.4. Neutrinos2. Forces and interactions -- 2.1. Fundamental forc…
"Version: 20170301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction : dark matter--what we do and do not know -- 1.1. Observational evidence for dark matter -- 1.2. Explanations for dark matter -- 1.3. Sterile neutrinos as dark matter2. Sterile neutrinos--almost part of the Standa…
"Version: 20170301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction : the Standard Models -- 2. The Planck scale--compactification3. Testing theories in physics, including string theories -- 3.1. Kaluza-Klein theories, anomalies, and the physics of extra dimensions4. The mass-ener…
"Version: 20170401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Symmetry, physical laws, and electric dipole moments -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Force field symmetries -- 1.3. Why measure EDMs, which, and how?2. Some essential experiments -- 2.1. Neutron EDM measurements -- 2.2. Penning t…
"Version: 20180601"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. A brief history of electron storage rings and their uses -- 1.2. General features and subsystems -- 1.3. Some examples of electron storage rings2. Linear optics -- 2.1. Co-ordinate system and transfer matrices -- 2.2…
"Version: 20250101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Supplementary reading -- 1.2. Aims and philosophy -- 1.3. Prerequisites -- 1.4. Conventions and notation2. Symmetries (discrete and continuous) -- 2.1. Beta decay -- 2.2. Parity violation in weak interactions -- 2.3. Parity violation in [beta]-decay -- 2.4. V-A formulation of the weak currents -- 2…
"Version: 20240801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. The Larmor formula and a classical description of Thomson scattering -- 1.2. Elements of special relativity : inertial frames and Lorentz transformations -- 1.3. Relativistic kinematics and dynamics -- 1.4. The relativistic kinematics of Compton scattering -- 1.5. The kinematics of inverse Compton …
"Version: 20241101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. An introduction to high-intensity lasers and nonlinear quantum electrodynamics -- 1.1. Evolution of laser technology and the associated intensities -- 1.2. Going deeper into the fundamental role of the laser strength parameter -- 1.3. The phenomenology of the interaction between electrons/matter and a high-intensity la…
"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Introduction. 1. Basic concepts -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Terminology and definitions -- 1.3. Units and dimensions -- 1.4. Sources of information2. Subatomic particles and their interactions -- 2.1. Classification of subatomic particles -- 2.2. Classification and ranges of interactions -- 2.3. Conservation laws…
"Version: 20240701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Brief history of the debate -- 1.1. The modern emergentists -- 1.2. Einstein, Pauli, and Schr?odinger -- 1.3. The return of emergence -- 1.4. Questioning the hierarchy -- 1.5. Weinberg and the response to P W Anderson -- 1.6. Universality and independence -- 1.7. Wheeler and the foundations of physics -- 1.8. Reductive…