Overview
- Presenting the multitude of interdisciplinary physics
- Spans a wide range of topics, reaching from nuclear structure physics to high-energy physics, from astrophysics to medical physics
- Up to date review of new developments
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: FIAS Interdisciplinary Science Series (FIAS)
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Table of contents (39 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Superheavy Elements
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Front Matter
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Nuclear Structure and Reactions
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Front Matter
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High-Energy Nuclear Physics
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About this book
Nuclear physics is an exciting, broadly faceted field. It spans a wide range of topics, reaching from nuclear structure physics to high-energy physics, astrophysics and medical physics (heavy ion tumor therapy). New developments are presented in this volume and the
status of research is reviewed. A major focus is put on nuclear structure physics, dealing with superheavy elements and with various forms of exotic nuclei: strange nuclei, very neutron rich nuclei, nuclei of antimatter. Also quantum electrodynamics of strong fields is addressed, which is linked to the occurrence of giant nuclear systems in, e.g., U+U collisions. At high energies nuclear physics joins with elementary particle physics. Various chapters address the theory of
elementary matter at high densities and temperature, in particular the quark gluon plasma which is predicted by quantum chromodynamics (QCD) to occur in high-energy heavy ion collisions. In the field of nuclear
astrophysics, the properties of neutron stars and quark stars are discussed. A topic which transcends nuclear physics is discussed in two chapters: The proposed pseudo-complex extension of Einstein's General Relativity leads to the prediction that there are no black
holes and that big bang cosmology has to be revised. Finally, the interdisciplinary nature of this volume is further accentuated by chapters on protein folding and on magnetoreception in birds and many other animals.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS)
Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität
Ruth-Moufang-Str. 1
60438 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Exciting Interdisciplinary Physics
Book Subtitle: Quarks and Gluons / Atomic Nuclei / Relativity and Cosmology / Biological Systems
Editors: Walter Greiner
Series Title: FIAS Interdisciplinary Science Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00047-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-00046-6Published: 29 May 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-03376-1Published: 20 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-00047-3Published: 08 July 2014
Series ISSN: 2522-8900
Series E-ISSN: 2522-8919
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 519
Topics: Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Medical and Radiation Physics, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics