Authors:
- Based on the lectures of Giorgio M. Giacomelli, one of the most influential experimentalists in particle physics in the last 40 years
- A comprehensive text that covers both traditional and recent topics in particle physics
- Provides the theoretical and phenomenological basis to understand the subatomic structure of matter
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics (ULNP)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The book provides theoretical and phenomenological insights on the structure of matter, presenting concepts and features of elementary particle physics and fundamental aspects of nuclear physics.
Starting with the basics (nomenclature, classification, acceleration techniques, detection of elementary particles), the properties of fundamental interactions (electromagnetic, weak and strong) are introduced with a mathematical formalism suited to undergraduate students. Some experimental results (the discovery of neutral currents and of the W± and Z0 bosons; the quark structure observed using deep inelastic scattering experiments) show the necessity of an evolution of the formalism. This motivates a more detailed description of the weak and strong interactions, of the Standard Model of the microcosm with its experimental tests, and of the Higgs mechanism. The open problems in the Standard Model of the microcosm and macrocosm are presented at the end of the book.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Physics and INFN, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Sylvie Braibant, Maurizio Spurio
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, Department of Physics and INFN, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Giorgio Giacomelli
About the authors
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”.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Particles and Fundamental Interactions
Book Subtitle: An Introduction to Particle Physics
Authors: Sylvie Braibant, Giorgio Giacomelli, Maurizio Spurio
Series Title: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2464-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2463-1Published: 16 November 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2464-8Published: 16 November 2011
Series ISSN: 2192-4791
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4805
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 498
Number of Illustrations: 167 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Original italian edition published with title: Particelle e interazioni fondamentali
Topics: Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics, Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons, Mathematical Methods in Physics, Astrophysics and Astroparticles