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81. Encyclopedia of Applied High Energy and Particle Physics | |
Hardcover: 854
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(2009-10-20)
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82. Astroparticle, Particle And Space Physics, Detectors And Medical Physics Applications: Proceedings of the 10th Conference Villa Olmo, Como Italy 8-12 October 2007 | |
Hardcover: 1044
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(2008-06-16)
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83. Weak Interactions and Modern Particle Theory (Dover Books on Physics) by Howard Georgi | |
Paperback: 192
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(2009-03-26)
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advanced quantum mechanics for the standard model |
84. The Quark Machines: How Europe Fought the Particle Physics War, Second Edition by G Fraser | |
Paperback: 210
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(1997-01-01)
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An exciting account Although it is clear that the author's intention is to highlight the development of the Counseil Européen de Recherche Nucléaire (CERN), he has a far more interesting story to tell. The achievement of scientific discoveries and harvest of Nobel prizes have always been the matter of national pride, and nobody doubts this was a most important motivation for the support this field of science received during the Cold War. However,the subtitle "How Europe fought the Particle Physics War" is misleading, as shown by the author himself. Throughout the book it is shown how high energy physics has benefited from the strong collaboration between scientists from many different countries. It tells us how many European scientists emigrated to America as a result of the rise of Nazism, and how this shifted the centre of gravity of physics research across the Atlantic. Not only did the immigrants' contributions fell in fertile soil, where a physics community was reaching maturity, but the extraordinary results they were able to achieve stimulated the growth of major scientific projects. By the end of the war, the prestige of nuclear scientists and the hope for a better world supported by scientific discoveries, made it possible to get support for bigger and more energetic particle accelerators; the quark machines. It is understandable that Europe was initially left behind, because of the economic conditions of the post war era, and it was necessary for European scientists to travel to America, in order to keep abreast of the new developments, just as their American colleagues needed to travel to Europe before the war. However, this situation would not last. The foundation of CERN, the innovative idea of a laboratory where scientists from all over Europe could get the best possible facilities in the world, was to solve this problem. At first it was necessary to build up the collaboration environment necessary within Europe, but as soon as it was established, CERN, in Geneva, became a new international collaboration site for scientists all over the world, along with SLAC, Fermilab and, Brookhaven, at the U.S.A., and DORIS, DESY and HERA in Germany. In the 80's and 90's a the major project was proposed in the U.S.A.: a Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), consisting in asuperconcucting magnet accelerator lodged in a circular tunnel with a circunference of 80 km., in contrast with CERN's Large Electron Collider (LEP), whose circumference is 27 km. Alas! This project was not to materialise. The end of Cold War, the quest for a balanced budget, and protests from scientists in other fields of research, led the U.S.A. Congress to shut down the project, even when there was already a significant advancement in it. This led to increase the American participation in CERN, and its forthcoming project, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scheduled for 2005. The author tells us how CERN has more recently been opened to the participation of other non-European countriesbesides the U.S.A., such as Japan, which has contributed five million yen to the LHC construction, Russia, that will provide 500 magnets,Canada, India and Israel.. Europe is by no means free of economic hardship, and he devotes the last chapter of the book to tell about the problems LHC had to face, before an agreement from member countries could be reached in order to get a green light. In order to understand the need for such expensive quark machines, it is necessary to have at least a rough idea of the relevance of the scientific discoveries they help to achieve. The author succeeds in conveying the excitement of High Energy Physicsresearch, guiding us through a historic account of how, in the course a century, a whole new picture of the structure of matter was produced. He keeps a nice balance in explaining the nomenclature that has arisen, while avoiding the use of unnecessary jargon. The standard model of elementary particles, the prevailing theoretical tool for understanding many of their features, is brilliantly sketched. The importance of good detectors along with accelerators is clearly stressed. I would have liked to see this part of the book expanded, and illustrated with more figures, explaining the composition of particles by different kinds of quarks. A clearer explanation of the quest to detect particles with naked charm or beauty, for instance, is lacking. The discovery of the top quark at Fermilab is only mentioned in passing. However, it is clear that the main purpose of the book is not so much to provide a popular monograph on high energy physics, as to tell the story of CERN, placing it in the context ofworldwide research, and setting it as a paradigm for European integration. .This historic account is supplemented with interesting anecdotes that introduce us to the personalities of the characters involved. The book is written for a general public, and is highly recommendable for anyone interested in understanding the achievements of 20th Century physics, specially physics students. Since high energy physics is rapidly advancing, it will be outdated in a few years. Whatever shortcomings it may have, may be corrected by the author in further editions, when discoveries from such machine as the LHC, and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven become available. ... Read more |
85. Particle Physics: One Hundred Years of Discoveries (An Annotated Chronological Bibliography) | |
Paperback: 340
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(1996-07-23)
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86. Particle Physics: A Los Alamos Primer | |
Paperback: 212
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(1988-04-29)
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87. Advanced Technology and Particle Physics | |
Hardcover: 860
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(2003-09)
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88. Elementary Particle Physics: Concepts and Phenomena (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics) by Otto Nachtmann | |
Paperback: 559
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(1989-11-13)
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89. Computer Simulation Using Particles by R.W Hockney, J.W Eastwood | |
Paperback: 540
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(1989-01-01)
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Classic text in N-body methods |
90. Particle Astrophysics (Oxford Master Series in Physics) by D. H. Perkins | |
Paperback: 272
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(2003-08-14)
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Partial impressions are good |
91. The Rise of the Standard Model: Particle Physics in the 1960's and 1970's | |
Paperback: 714
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(1997-11-13)
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essays from key authors of Standard Model |
92. Elementary Particle Physics: Concepts and Phenomena (Texts and Monographs in Physics) by Otto Nachtmann, A. Lahee, W. Wetzel | |
Paperback: 559
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(1990-01)
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Nachtmann's Elementary Particle physics
Comprehensive yet indepth review of the subject. |
93. Radiation Physics for Medical Physicists (Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering) by Ervin B. Podgorsak | |
Hardcover: 745
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(2010-05-21)
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Editorial Review Product Description This book summarizes basic knowledge of atomic, nuclear, and radiation physics that professionals need for efficient and safe use of ionizing radiation. Concentrating on the underlying principles of radiation physics, it covers prerequisite knowledge for medical physics courses on the graduate and post-graduate levels, providing the link between elementary physics on the one hand and the intricacies of the medical physics specialties on the other. |
94. Dictionary of Material Science and High Energy Physics (Comprehensive Dictionary of Physics) | |
Hardcover: 360
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(2001-01-25)
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95. Introduction to Experimental Particle Physics by Richard Clinton Fernow | |
Paperback: 432
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(1989-03-31)
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Good item for students who study experimental high energy physics
Essential reading for High Energy Physics Experimentalists My only complaint:the book is now printed digitally and looks it.Some of the pages were almost unreadable and the cover looks like it was done on your laser printer.I'm used to better quality from Cambridge Press.
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96. Local Quantum Physics: Fields, Particles, Algebras (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics) (Volume 0) by Rudolf Haag | |
Paperback: 390
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(1996-08-05)
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A good first step.
I practically owe my today's academical self to this work...
A complete recapitulation From here the development has continued, looking for nets
Deserves 10 stars One of the best attributes of this book is that the author realizes this, and early on he refers to "general", rather than "axiomatic" QFT as being more appropriate since it allows flexibility in relation to future discoveries. Not only that, the author endeavors to explain the formalism that he is expousing in the book, and he succeeds brilliantly. Anyone interested in the mathematical physics behind quantum field theory, and not just doing bread-and-butter perturbation calculations, will gain a lot from the reading of this book. It is packed full of insight, a rare occurence in books that employ the heavy mathematical formalism that this one does. One will need a strong background in operator theory, abstract theory, and several complex variables to read the book, but a lot of this is developed impromptu as the text unfolds. When it is not, the author gives references for those readers who need more in-depth discussion. There are so many ineresting discussions in this book that space does not permit an evaluation of all of them, but the following is a short list of points in the book that I found particularly well-written: 1. The Wigner analysis of irreducible unitary representations of the Poincare group. This is not a mathematically rigorous discussion, but the author points out the physical relevance of the fact that the spectrum of the 4-momentum operator must be concentrated on a single orbit. This fact ensures the stability of matter. And, as frequently happens in physics, several mathematical consequences of a particular physical theory are discarded as not being relevant; in this case the other three classes of the irreducible representations. That being said, the author does include as of possible physical relevance the idea of parastatistics. He points out his reasons for this, namely that a strict adherence to the Bose-Fermi alternative is not operationally justified. 2. The role of fields in implementing the principle of locality and not as observable particles. This fact is usually not emphasized in books on quantum field theory. 3. The author clarifies the distinction between the notion of locality that deals with the commutation of two observables that are space-like separated, and the one dealing with the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox and Bell's inequality. 4. The discussion on the Bose-Einstein alternative, in particular the suggestion that parastatistics can be replaced by Bose or Fermi statistics in the presence of a non-Abelian unbroken global gauge group. 5. The discussion on topological charges and their prohibition by the Doplicher-Haag-Roberts selection criterion. The Doplicher-Haag-Roberts criterion was used in scattering theory and thought to be reasonable, but the author shows that its use is problematic in this case also, as well as in prohibiting topological charge. Purely massive fields can, it turns out, have measurable correlations at large distances, and Borcher's selection criterion, also discussed along these lines, gives topological charges. 6. The treatment of the Tomita-Takesaki theorem, modular automorphisms, and their connection to the KMS-condition. 7. The discussion on the need for type III-1 von Neumann algebras in relativistic quantum field theory versus type I in ordinary quantum mechanics. Such a von Neumann algebra is hyperfinite and is unique. 8. The discussion on the impossibility of coherent wave packets of one-electron states in quantum field theory, as contrasted with the usual practice in quantum mechanics. This is dues to superselection rules and the "infraparticle" nature of electrically charged particles, which are not associated with discrete eigenvalues of the mass operator. The author asks the reader to justify electron interference experiments in quantum field theory.
The most important book about algebraic qft by its founder The algebra of observables is designed as the C*-inductive limit of anet of von Neumann-algebras the index set of which is formedof opensubsets of space-time. The book discusses the DHR-selection criterion aswell as the BF-criterion of Buchholz and Fredenhagen that is more adequateto massive fields. Furthermore Haag gives a short introduction tostatistical qft in the algebraic framework. Especially the KMS-conditionwhich was formulated in the sixties by Haag, Hugenholtz and Winnink isdiscussed. A highly recommended book! ... Read more |
97. On the Role of Division, Jordan and Related Algebras in Particle Physics by Feza Gursey, Chia-Hsiung Tze | |
Hardcover: 461
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(1996-12)
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98. Particle Physics and the Schrödinger Equation (Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology) by Harald Grosse, Andri Martin | |
Paperback: 180
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(2005-12-15)
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99. Elementary Particles: Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy (Fundamental Theories of Physics) by Kobzarev, Y.I. Manin | |
Hardcover: 228
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(1989-02-28)
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