Particles and Fundamental Interactions: Supplements, Problems and Solutions: A Deeper Insight into Particle Physics

by Sylvie Braibant, Giorgio Giacomelli, Maurizio Spurio

Overview

This volume is an exercises and solutions manual that complements the book "Particles and Fundamental Interactions" by Sylvie Braibant, Giorgio Giacomelli, and Maurizio Spurio. It aims to give additional intellectual stimulation for students in experimental particle physics.

It will be a helpful companion in the preparation of a written examination, but also it provides a means to gaining a deeper understanding of high energy physics. The problems proposed are sometimes true and important research questions, which are described and solved in a step-by-step manner. In addition to the problems and solutions, this book offers fifteen Supplements that give further insight into topical subjects related to particle accelerators, signal and data acquisition systems and computational methods to treat them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789400741348
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	04/17/2012
Series:	Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	189
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Giorgio M. Giacomelli became full professor of Physics in 1971. He is (co)author of more than 650 publications in scientific journals and over 350 reports and conference proceedings. He supervised 115 Laurea Theses, 30 PhD Theses. He received prizes from the Italian Physical Society, the University of Bologna and from the A. Della Riccia Foundation. He is “Marchigiano of the year 2006”. In 1981 the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) listed him in the “1000 Contemporary Scientists Most-Cited in 1969-78". He is presently in the Highly Cited list of ISI.
He was Director of the Institute of Physics, of the Department of Physics (1975-88) and President of the Laurea in Physics Committee of the University of Bologna. He was a member of many national and international scientific committees (SPSC, LEPC and ECFA at CERN, HEP at Fermilab, of INFN, of the ENI foundation, of CTS of ENEA, bioethics of CNR, of the Galvani Committee). Presently he is Emeritus Professor at the University of Bologna, collaborator of INFN and CERN, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Socio Benemerito of the Italian Physical Society, member of the European Physical Society, of the Accademia delle Scienze di Bologna, of the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Accademia Teatina. He is one of the Editors of the Journal “Astroparticle Physics”.

Table of Contents

Historical notes and fundamental concepts.- Particle interaction with matter and detectors.- Particle accelerators and particle detection.- The paradigm of interactions: the electromagnetic case.- First discussion of the other fundamental interactions.- Invariance and conservation principles.- Interactions of hadrons at low energies and the static quark model.- Weak interactions and neutrinos.- Discoveries in electron-positron collisions.- High energy interactions and the dynamic quark model.- The Standard Model of the Microcosm .- CP violation and particle oscillations.- Microcosm and Macrocosm.- Fundamental aspects of nucleon interactions.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

“This book is intended mainly to undergraduate students in experimental and theoretical physics but is also suitable for physics teachers that can find here an extensive collection of exercises (or can be inspired by them). It can be also very useful to all the people that want to approach the subject of modern particle physics and are looking for a good training.” (Philosophy, Religion and Science Book Reviews, bookinspections.wordpress.com, September, 2013)

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