{"product_id":"nuclear-and-particle-physics-9781119344612","title":"Nuclear and Particle Physics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Basic concepts 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1 History 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1.1 The origins of nuclear physics 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1.2 The emergence of particle physics: hadrons and quarks 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1.3 The standard model of particle physics 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2 Relativity and antiparticles 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3 Space-time symmetries and conservation laws 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3.1 Parity 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3.2 Charge conjugation 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3.3 Time reversal 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4 Interactions and Feynman diagrams 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4.1 Interactions 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4.2 Feynman diagrams 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.5 Particle exchange: forces and potentials 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.5.1 Range of forces 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.5.2 The Yukawa potential 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.6 Observable quantities: cross-sections and decay rates 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.6.1 Amplitudes 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.6.2 Cross-sections 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.6.3 The basic scattering formulas 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.6.4 Unstable states 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.7 Units 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems 1 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Nuclear phenomenology 41\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 Mass spectroscopy 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1.1 Deflection spectrometers 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1.2 Kinematic analysis 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1.3 Penning trap measurements 46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 Nuclear shapes and sizes 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2.1 Charge distribution 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2.2 Matter distribution 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3 Semi-empirical mass formula: the liquid drop model 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3.1 Binding energies 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3.2 Semi-empirical mass formula 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4 Nuclear instability 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5 Decay chains 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.6 \u003ci\u003eβ \u003c\/i\u003edecay phenomenology 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.6.1 Odd-mass nuclei 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.6.2 Even-mass nuclei 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.7 Fission 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.8 \u003ci\u003eγ \u003c\/i\u003edecays 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.9 Nuclear reactions 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems 2 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Particle phenomenology 83\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 Leptons 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1.1 Lepton multiplets and lepton numbers 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1.2 Universal lepton interactions; the number of neutrinos 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1.3 Neutrinos 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1.4 Neutrino mixing and oscillations 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1.5 Oscillation experiments 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1.6 Neutrino masses and mixing angles 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1.7 Lepton numbers revisited 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 Quarks 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2.1 Evidence for quarks 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2.2 Quark generations and quark numbers 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 Hadrons 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3.1 Flavour independence and charge multiplets 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3.2 The simple quark model 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3.3 Hadron decays and lifetimes 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3.4 Hadron magnetic moments and masses 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3.5 Heavy quarkonia 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3.6 Allowed and exotic quantum numbers 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems 3 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Experimental methods 139\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 Overview 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 Accelerators and beams 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2.1 DC accelerators 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2.2 AC accelerators 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2.3 Neutral and unstable particle beams 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 Particle interactions with matter 152\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.1 Short-range interactions with nuclei 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.2 Ionisation energy losses 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.3 Radiation energy losses 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.4 Interactions of photons in matter 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3.5 Ranges and interaction lengths 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4 Particle detectors 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4.1 Gaseous ionisation detectors 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4.2 Scintillation counters 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4.3 Semiconductor detectors 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4.4 Cerenkov counters and transition radiation 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4.5 Calorimeters 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5 Detector Systems 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems 4 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Quark dynamics: the strong interaction 185\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 Colour 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2.1 The strong coupling constant 190\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2.2 Screening, antiscreening and asymptotic freedom 193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3 New forms of matter 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3.1 Exotic hadrons 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3.2 The quark–gluon plasma 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4 Jets and gluons 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4.1 Colour counting 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5 Deep inelastic scattering and nucleon structure 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5.1 Scaling 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5.2 The quark-parton model 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5.3 Scaling violations and parton distributions 211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5.4 Inelastic neutrino scattering 215\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.6 Other processes 217\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.6.1 Jets 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.6.2 Lepton pair production 221\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.7 Current and constituent quarks 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems 5 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Weak interactions and electroweak unification 229\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1 Charged and neutral currents 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2 Charged current reactions 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2.1 \u003ci\u003eW\u003csup\u003e±\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e-lepton interactions 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2.2 Lepton–quark symmetry and mixing 234\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2.3 W-boson decays 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2.4 Charged current selection rules 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3 The third generation 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3.1 More quark mixing 243\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3.2 Properties of the top quark 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.4 Neutral currents and the unified theory 247\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.4.1 Electroweak unification 247\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.4.2 The \u003ci\u003eZ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003csup\u003e0\u003c\/sup\u003e vertices and electroweak reactions 250\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.5 Gauge invariance and the Higgs boson 252\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.5.1 Unification and the gauge principle 253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.5.2 Particle masses and the Higgs field 255\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.5.3 Properties of the Higgs boson 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.5.4 Discovery of the Higgs boson 259\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems 6 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Symmetry breaking in the weak interaction 271\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1 \u003ci\u003eP \u003c\/i\u003eviolation, \u003ci\u003eC \u003c\/i\u003eviolation, and \u003ci\u003eCP \u003c\/i\u003econservation 271\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1.1 Muon decay symmetries 273\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1.2 Parity violation in electroweak processes 275\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2 Spin structure of the weak interactions 277\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2.1 Left-handed neutrinos and right-handed antineutrinos 277\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2.2 Particles with mass: chirality 279\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3 Neutral kaons: particle–antiparticle mixing and \u003ci\u003eCP \u003c\/i\u003eviolation 281\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3.1 \u003ci\u003eCP \u003c\/i\u003einvariance and neutral kaons 281\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3.2 \u003ci\u003eCP \u003c\/i\u003eviolation in \u003ci\u003eK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003csup\u003e0\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003csub\u003e\u003ci\u003eL \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/sub\u003edecay 283\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3.3 Flavour oscillations and \u003ci\u003eCPT \u003c\/i\u003einvariance 285\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4 \u003ci\u003eCP \u003c\/i\u003eviolation and flavour oscillations in \u003ci\u003eB \u003c\/i\u003edecays 289\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4.1 Direct \u003ci\u003eCP \u003c\/i\u003eviolation in decay rates 290\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4.2 \u003ci\u003eB\u003c\/i\u003e\u003csup\u003e0\u003c\/sup\u003e \u003ci\u003e− B\u003c\/i\u003e\u003csup\u003e0\u003c\/sup\u003e mixing 291\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4.3 \u003ci\u003eCP \u003c\/i\u003eviolation in interference 295\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.5 \u003ci\u003eCP \u003c\/i\u003eviolation in the standard model 299\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems 7 302\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Models and theories of nuclear physics 305\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1 The nucleon–nucleon potential 305\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2 Fermi gas model 308\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3 Shell model 310\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3.1 Shell structure of atoms 310\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3.2 Nuclear shell structure and magic numbers 312\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3.3 Spins, parities, and magnetic dipole moments 315\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3.4 Excited states 318\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4 Nonspherical nuclei 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4.1 Electric quadrupole moments 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4.2 Collective model 322\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.5 Summary of nuclear structure models 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.6 \u003ci\u003eα \u003c\/i\u003edecay 324\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.7 \u003ci\u003eβ \u003c\/i\u003edecay 327\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.7.1 \u003ci\u003eV − A \u003c\/i\u003etheory 327\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.7.2 Electron and positron momentum distributions 329\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.7.3 Selection rules 330\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.7.4 Applications of Fermi theory 332\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.8 \u003ci\u003eγ \u003c\/i\u003edecay 337\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.8.1 Selection rules 337\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.8.2 Transition rates 339\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems 8 340\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Applications of nuclear and particle physics 343\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1 Fission 343\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1.1 Induced fission and chain reactions 344\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1.2 Thermal fission reactors 348\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1.3 Radioactive waste 352\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1.4 Power from ADS systems 354\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2 Fusion 357\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2.1 Coulomb barrier 357\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2.2 Fusion reaction rates 358\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2.3 Nucleosynthesis and stellar evolution 361\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2.4 Fusion reactors 366\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3 Nuclear weapons 371\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3.1 Fission devices 371\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3.2 Fission\/fusion devices 374\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4 Biomedical applications 377\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4.1 Radiation and living matter 377\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4.2 Radiation therapy 380\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4.3 Medical imaging using ionising radiation 385\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4.4 Magnetic resonance imaging 390\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.5 Further applications 395\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.5.1 Computing and data analysis 395\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.5.2 Archaeology and geophysics 396\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.5.3 Accelerators and detectors 397\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.5.4 Industrial applications 398\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems 9 398\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Some outstanding questions and future prospects 401\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.1 Overview 401\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.2 Hadrons and nuclei 402\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.2.1 Hadron structure and the nuclear environment 402\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.2.2 Nuclear structure 405\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.3 Unification schemes 407\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.3.1 Grand unification 407\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.3.2 Supersymmetry 412\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.3.3 Strings and things 417\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4 The nature of the neutrino 418\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4.1 Neutrinoless double beta decay 420\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.5 Particle astrophysics 426\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.5.1 Neutrino astrophysics 427\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.5.2 Cosmology and dark matter 432\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.5.3 Matter–antimatter asymmetry 438\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.5.4 Axions and the strong \u003ci\u003eCP \u003c\/i\u003eproblem 441\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Some results in quantum mechanics 445\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.1 Barrier penetration 445\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.2 Density of states 447\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.3 Perturbation theory and the Second Golden Rule 449\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.4 Isospin formalism 452\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.4.1 Isospin operators and quark states 452\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.4.2 Hadron states 454\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems A 456\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eB Relativistic kinematics 457\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eB.1 Lorentz transformations and four-vectors 457\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eB.2 Frames of reference 459\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eB.3 Invariants 461\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems B 463\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eC Rutherford scattering 465\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eC.1 Classical physics 465\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eC.2 Quantum mechanics 467\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems C 469\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eD Gauge theories 471\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eD.1 Gauge invariance and the standard model 471\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eD.1.1 Electromagnetism and the gauge principle 471\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eD.1.2 The standard model 474\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eD.2 Particle masses and the Higgs field 478\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems D 481\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eE Short answers to selected problems 483\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 487\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 491\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInside Rear Cover: Table of constants and conversion factors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default 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