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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Journeys Through The Precision Frontier:
Book SynopsisThis volume is a compilation of the lectures at TASI 2014. The coverage focuses on modern calculational techniques for scattering amplitudes, and on the phenomenology of QCD in hadronic collisions. Introductions to flavor physics, dark matter, and physics beyond the Standard Model are also provided. The lectures are accessible to graduate students at the initial stages of their research careers.Table of ContentsIntroduction to QCD (Thomas Gehrmann); Spinor-Helicity and Unitarity Methods (Lance Dixon); Experimental Methods at the LHC (Andrey Korytov); Parton Showers and Monte Carlo Simulations (Stefan Hoeche); Flavor Physics (Zoltan Ligeti); Mathematical Aspects of Scattering Amplitudes (Claude Duhr); Amplitudes in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory (Marcus Spradlin); Applied Holography (Chris Herzog); Physics Beyond the Standard Model at Colliders (Konstantin Matchev); The Hunt for Dark Matter (Graciela Gelmini); Novel Amplitude Relations (John Joseph Carrasco);
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Multifaceted Skyrmion, The
Book SynopsisThis book presents, in the form of reviews by world's leading physicists in wide-ranging fields in theoretical physics, the influence and prescience of Skyrme's daring idea of 1960, originally conceived for nuclear physics, that fermions can arise from bosons via topological solitons, pervasively playing a powerful role in wide-ranging areas of physics, from nuclear/astrophysics, to particle physics, to string theory and to condensed matter physics.The skyrmion description, both from gauge theory and from gauge/gravity duality, offers solutions to some long-standing and extremely difficult problems at high baryonic density, inaccessible by QCD proper. It also offers explanations and makes startling predictions for fascinating new phenomena in condensed matter systems. In both cases, what is at the core is the topology although the phenomena are drastically different, even involving different spacetime dimensions.This second edition has been expanded with addition of new reviews and extensively updated to take into account the latest developments in the field.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Massive Neutrinos: Flavor Mixing Of Leptons And
Book SynopsisSince the discovery of neutrino oscillations neutrino physics has become an interesting field of research in physics. They imply that neutrino must have a small mass and that the neutrinos, coupled to the charged leptons, are mixtures of the mass eigenstates, analogous to the flavor mixing of the quarks. The mixing angles for the quarks are small, but for the leptons two of the mixing angles are large. The masses of the three neutrinos must be very small, less than 1 eV, but from the oscillation experiments we only know the mass differences — the absolute masses are still unknown. Also we do not know, if the masses of the neutrinos are Dirac masses, as the masses of the charged leptons and of the quarks, or whether they are Majorana masses.In this volume, an overview of the present state of research in neutrino physics is given by well-known experimentalists and theorists. The contents — originated from talks and discussions at a recent conference addressing some of the most pressing open questions in neutrino physics — range from the oscillation experiments to CP-violation for leptons, to texture zero mass matrices and to the role of neutrinos in astrophysics and cosmology.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd 60 Years Of Yang-mills Gauge Field Theories: C N
Book SynopsisDuring the last six decades, Yang-Mills theory has increasingly become the cornerstone of theoretical physics. It is seemingly the only fully consistent relativistic quantum many-body theory in four space-time dimensions. As such it is the underlying theoretical framework for the Standard Model of Particle Physics, which has been shown to be the correct theory at the energies we now can measure. It has been investigated also from many other perspectives, and many new and unexpected features have been uncovered from this theory. In recent decades, apart from high energy physics, the theory has been actively applied in other branches of physics, such as statistical physics, condensed matter physics, nonlinear systems, etc. This makes the theory an indispensable topic for all who are involved in physics.The conference celebrated the exceptional achievements using Yang-Mills theory over the years but also many other truly remarkable contributions to different branches of physics from Prof C N Yang. This volume collects the invaluable talks by Prof C N Yang and the invited speakers reviewing these remarkable contributions and their importance for the future of physics.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd 60 Years Of Yang-mills Gauge Field Theories: C N
Book SynopsisDuring the last six decades, Yang-Mills theory has increasingly become the cornerstone of theoretical physics. It is seemingly the only fully consistent relativistic quantum many-body theory in four space-time dimensions. As such it is the underlying theoretical framework for the Standard Model of Particle Physics, which has been shown to be the correct theory at the energies we now can measure. It has been investigated also from many other perspectives, and many new and unexpected features have been uncovered from this theory. In recent decades, apart from high energy physics, the theory has been actively applied in other branches of physics, such as statistical physics, condensed matter physics, nonlinear systems, etc. This makes the theory an indispensable topic for all who are involved in physics.The conference celebrated the exceptional achievements using Yang-Mills theory over the years but also many other truly remarkable contributions to different branches of physics from Prof C N Yang. This volume collects the invaluable talks by Prof C N Yang and the invited speakers reviewing these remarkable contributions and their importance for the future of physics.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Chern-simons (Super)gravity
Book Synopsis'The authors provide an up-to-date, well-organised background and essential elements of supergravity notions as well as all relevant aspects of Chern-Simons forms in gravitation. The book is a self-contained, informative, and much-needed broad introduction into the latest quantum gravity concepts, with a main focus on Chern-Simons gravity and supersymmetry … The book represents a comprehensive and systematic pedagogical exposition on gravitational Chern-Simons (Super)gravity theories, their applications, together with a selection of related recent developments in the field.'Contemporary PhysicsThis book grew out of a set of lecture notes on gravitational Chern-Simons (CS) theories developed over the past decade for several schools and different audiences including graduate students and researchers.CS theories are gauge-invariant theories that can include gravity consistently. They are only defined in odd dimensions and represent a very special class of theories in the Lovelock family. Lovelock gravitation theories are the natural extensions of General Relativity for dimensions greater than four that yield second-order field equations for the metric. These theories also admit local supersymmetric extensions where supersymmetry is an off-shell symmetry of the action, as in a standard gauge theory.Apart from the arguments of mathematical elegance and beauty, the gravitational CS actions are exceptionally endowed with physical attributes that suggest the viability of a quantum interpretation. CS theories are gauge-invariant, scale-invariant and background independent; they have no dimensional coupling constants. All constants in the Lagrangian are fixed rational coefficients that cannot be adjusted without destroying gauge invariance. This exceptional status of CS systems makes them classically interesting to study, and quantum mechanically intriguing and promising.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Standard Theory Of Particle Physics, The: Essays
Book Synopsis'The editors make a good point in claiming the time has come to upgrade the Standard Model into the ‘Standard Theory’ of particle physics, and I think this book deserves a place in the bookshelves of a broad community, from the scientists and engineers who contributed to the progress of high-energy physics to younger physicists, eager to learn and enjoy the corresponding inside stories.'Carlos LourençoCERN CourierThe book gives a quite complete and up-to-date picture of the Standard Theory with an historical perspective, with a collection of articles written by some of the protagonists of present particle physics. The theoretical developments are described together with the most up-to-date experimental tests, including the discovery of the Higgs Boson and the measurement of its mass as well as the most precise measurements of the top mass, giving the reader a complete description of our present understanding of particle physics.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Particles And Quantum Fields
Book SynopsisThis is an introductory book on elementary particles and their interactions. It starts out with many-body Schrödinger theory and second quantization and leads, via its generalization, to relativistic fields of various spins and to gravity. The text begins with the best known quantum field theory so far, the quantum electrodynamics of photon and electrons (QED). It continues by developing the theory of strong interactions between the elementary constituents of matter (quarks). This is possible due to the property called asymptotic freedom. On the way one has to tackle the problem of removing various infinities by renormalization. The divergent sums of infinitely many diagrams are performed with the renormalization group or by variational perturbation theory (VPT). The latter is an outcome of the Feynman-Kleinert variational approach to path integrals discussed in two earlier books of the author, one representing a comprehensive treatise on path integrals, the other dealing with critial phenomena. Unlike ordinary perturbation theory, VPT produces uniformly convergent series which are valid from weak to strong couplings, where they describe critical phenomena.The present book develops the theory of effective actions which allow to treat quantum phenomena with classical formalism. For example, it derives the observed anomalous power laws of strongly interacting theories from an extremum of the action. Their fluctuations are not based on Gaussian distributions, as in the perturbative treatment of quantum field theories, or in asymptotically-free theories, but on deviations from the average which are much larger and which obey power-like distributions.Exactly solvable models are discussed and their physical properties are compared with those derived from general methods. In the last chapter we discuss the problem of quantizing the classical theory of gravity.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Particles And Quantum Fields
Book SynopsisThis is an introductory book on elementary particles and their interactions. It starts out with many-body Schrödinger theory and second quantization and leads, via its generalization, to relativistic fields of various spins and to gravity. The text begins with the best known quantum field theory so far, the quantum electrodynamics of photon and electrons (QED). It continues by developing the theory of strong interactions between the elementary constituents of matter (quarks). This is possible due to the property called asymptotic freedom. On the way one has to tackle the problem of removing various infinities by renormalization. The divergent sums of infinitely many diagrams are performed with the renormalization group or by variational perturbation theory (VPT). The latter is an outcome of the Feynman-Kleinert variational approach to path integrals discussed in two earlier books of the author, one representing a comprehensive treatise on path integrals, the other dealing with critial phenomena. Unlike ordinary perturbation theory, VPT produces uniformly convergent series which are valid from weak to strong couplings, where they describe critical phenomena.The present book develops the theory of effective actions which allow to treat quantum phenomena with classical formalism. For example, it derives the observed anomalous power laws of strongly interacting theories from an extremum of the action. Their fluctuations are not based on Gaussian distributions, as in the perturbative treatment of quantum field theories, or in asymptotically-free theories, but on deviations from the average which are much larger and which obey power-like distributions.Exactly solvable models are discussed and their physical properties are compared with those derived from general methods. In the last chapter we discuss the problem of quantizing the classical theory of gravity.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Technology Meets Research - 60 Years Of Cern
Book Synopsis'The contributions from leading scientists of the day collected in this relatively slim book document CERN's 60-year voyage of innovation and discovery, the repercussions of which vindicate the vision of those who drove the foundation of the laboratory — European in constitution, but global in impact. The spirit of inclusive collaboration, which was a key element of the original vision for the laboratory, together with the aim of technical innovation and scientific excellence, are reflected in each of the articles in this unique volume.'CERN Courier'Big' science and advanced technology are known to cross-fertilize. This book emphasizes the interplay between particle physics and technology at CERN that has led to breakthroughs in both research and technology over the laboratory's first 60 years. The innovations, often the work of individuals or by small teams, are illustrated with highlights describing selected technologies from the domains of accelerators and detectors. The book also presents the framework and conditions prevailing at CERN that enabled spectacular advances in technology and contributed to propel the European organization into the league of leading research laboratories in the world.While the book is specifically aimed at providing information for the technically interested general public, more expert readers may also appreciate the broad variety of subjects presented. Ample references are given for those who wish to further explore a given topic.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Experimental Studies Of Neutrino Oscillations
Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald have been jointly awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics 'for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass'. Takaaki Kajita is a Japanese physicist who is well known for neutrino experiments at the Kamiokande and the even more outsized Super-Kamiokande.This volume of collected works of Kajita on neutrino oscillations provides a good glimpse into the rise of Asian research in the frontiers of neutrino physics. Japan is now a major force in the study of the three families of neutrinos. Much remains to be done to clarify the Dirac vs. Majorana nature of the neutrino, and the cosmological implications of the neutrino. The collected works of Kajita and his Super-Kamiokande group will leave an indelible footprint in the history of big and better science.Copyright of the cover image belongs to Kamioka Observatory, ICRR (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research), The University of Tokyo.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Experimental Studies Of Neutrino Oscillations
Book SynopsisTakaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald have been jointly awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics 'for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass'. Takaaki Kajita is a Japanese physicist who is well known for neutrino experiments at the Kamiokande and the even more outsized Super-Kamiokande.This volume of collected works of Kajita on neutrino oscillations provides a good glimpse into the rise of Asian research in the frontiers of neutrino physics. Japan is now a major force in the study of the three families of neutrinos. Much remains to be done to clarify the Dirac vs. Majorana nature of the neutrino, and the cosmological implications of the neutrino. The collected works of Kajita and his Super-Kamiokande group will leave an indelible footprint in the history of big and better science.Copyright of the cover image belongs to Kamioka Observatory, ICRR (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research), The University of Tokyo.Table of ContentsNeutrino Oscillations: Discovery, Current Status, Future Directions (Takaaki Kajita); Future Atmospheric Neutrino Experiments: The Case of Water Cherenkov Detectors (Takaaki Kajita et al.); The JHF-Kamioka Neutrino Project (Takaaki Kajita); Solar and Atmospheric Neutrino Results From Super-Kamiokande (Takaaki Kajita et al.); Neutrino Oscillation Experiments: Super-Kamiokande, K2K and the JPARC Neutrino Project (Takaaki Kajita); Present and Future Neutrino Oscillation Experiments (Takaaki Kajita); Solar and Atmospheric Neutrinos (Takaaki Kajita);
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World Scientific Publishing Company Supersymmetry From The Basics To Exact Results In
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World Scientific Publishing Company Theoretical Physics For The Masses
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World Scientific Publishing Company Supersymmetric World The The Beginnings Of The
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World Scientific Publishing Company Introduction To Gaugehiggs Unification An Extra
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Instrumentation And Techniques In High Energy
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Hidden Worlds Of Quantum Physics
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Wild Fractal Nature Of Spacetime The Smooth
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World Scientific Publishing Company Problems And Solutions On Atomic Nuclear And
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World Scientific Publishing Company Problems And Solutions On Atomic Nuclear And
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World Scientific Publishing Company Physics Through Symmetries
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Principles Of Physics From Quantum Field Theory
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World Scientific Publishing Company Theoretical Physics For The Masses
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EPB Publishers Pte Ltd Covariant Operator Formalism Of Gauge Theories
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EPB Publishers Pte Ltd Covariant Operator Formalism Of Gauge Theories
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EPB Publishers Pte Ltd Stochastic Quantization
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EPB Publishers Pte Ltd Mathematical Aspects Of String Theory -
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EPB Publishers Pte Ltd Stochastic Quantization
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EPB Publishers Pte Ltd Dark Matter In The Universe - Proceedings Of The
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EPB Publishers Pte Ltd Dark Matter In The Universe - Proceedings Of The
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EPB Publishers Pte Ltd Lower Dimensional Gravity
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EPB Publishers Pte Ltd Qcd Spectral Sum Rules
Book SynopsisThe aim of the book is to give an introduction to the method of QCD Spectral Sum Rules and to review its developments. After some general introductory remarks, Chiral Symmetry, the Historical Developments of the Sum Rules and the necessary materials for perturbative QCD including the MS regularization and renormalization schemes are discussed. The book also gives a critical review and some improvements of the wide uses of the QSSR in Hadron Physics and QSSR beyond the Standard Hadron Phenomenology. The author has participated actively in this field since 1978 just before the expanding success of the SVZ QSSR.
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EPB Publishers Pte Ltd Physics Of Massive Neutrinos, The
Book Synopsis This book explains the physics and phenomenology of massive neutrinos. The authors argue that neutrino mass is not unlikely and consider briefly the search for evidence of this mass in decay processes before they examine the physics and phenomenology of neutrino oscillation. The physics of Majorana neutrinos (neutrinos which are their own antiparticles) is then discussed. This volume requires of the reader only a knowledge of quantum mechanics and of very elementary quantum field theory.
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EPB Publishers Pte Ltd Gauge Fields: Classification And Equations Of
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EPB Publishers Pte Ltd Physics And Mathematics Of Strings: Memorial
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EPB Publishers Pte Ltd Physics And Mathematics Of Strings: Memorial
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Methods In Field Theory: Les Houches Session
Book SynopsisThis book is one of the most important reference books in Field Theory with permanent value. To enable wider access by students, researchers and libraries of developing countries, this valuable volume has been reprinted and is sold at a much lower price than before.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Quarks: Frontiers In Elementary Particle Physics
Book SynopsisThe book explains in a precise and complete manner how elementary particle physics has evolved over the past 50 years. The historical development of the ideas that have shaped our thinking about the ultimate constituents of matter is traced out. The author has been associated with some of the originators of elementary particle theory and has made significant contributions to the field. Here, he gives a first-person description of some of the main developments leading to our present view of the universe.Trade Review"Professor Nambu's book ia a useful addition to the library on elementary particles for the scientific layman." R Barrass Physics Bulletin (UK)
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Quark Model And High Energy Collisions
Book Synopsishttp://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/0111
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Quantum Theory Of Many Variable Systems And
Book SynopsisThese lecture notes are based on special courses on Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics given for graduate students at the City College of New York. It is an ideal text for a one-semester course on Quantum Field Theory.Trade Review"... one finds excellent discussions of a number of topics not treated in textbooks: to wit, point canonical transformations, large N matrix models, collective variables and stochastic quantization ... This book should be useful reading for graduate students and research workers in quantum field theory and related subjects." Claus Montonen (Helsinki) Mathematical Reviews, April 1987
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Quantum Theory Of Many Variable Systems And
Book SynopsisThese lecture notes are based on special courses on Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics given for graduate students at the City College of New York. It is an ideal text for a one-semester course on Quantum Field Theory.Trade Review"... one finds excellent discussions of a number of topics not treated in textbooks: to wit, point canonical transformations, large N matrix models, collective variables and stochastic quantization ... This book should be useful reading for graduate students and research workers in quantum field theory and related subjects." Claus Montonen (Helsinki) Mathematical Reviews, April 1987
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Elements Of Quantum Mechanics Of Infinite Systems
Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of lecture notes discussing the basic features of the Quantum Mechanics of Infinite Systems such as collective phenomena, spontaneous symmetry breaking, etc. The mathematical precision has been reduced to a minimum in order to communicate the main ideas to a larger audience including those who are not mathematically meinded. It is aimed at helping students who have difficulty in finding accessible and compact expositions of the material in standard textbooks.Trade Review"I found these notes extremely rewarding because not only did they enlarge my physics horizon but they did so where it counts." Physics Today, 1988 "Remarkable clarity and deep physical insight make this book both a valuable tool for theoretical physics students and pleasant reading for researchers in various fields of pure and applied quantum mechanics." Mathematical Reviews, 1987
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Elements Of Quantum Mechanics Of Infinite Systems
Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of lecture notes discussing the basic features of the Quantum Mechanics of Infinite Systems such as collective phenomena, spontaneous symmetry breaking, etc. The mathematical precision has been reduced to a minimum in order to communicate the main ideas to a larger audience including those who are not mathematically meinded. It is aimed at helping students who have difficulty in finding accessible and compact expositions of the material in standard textbooks.Trade Review"I found these notes extremely rewarding because not only did they enlarge my physics horizon but they did so where it counts." Physics Today, 1988 "Remarkable clarity and deep physical insight make this book both a valuable tool for theoretical physics students and pleasant reading for researchers in various fields of pure and applied quantum mechanics." Mathematical Reviews, 1987
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