Particles and Fundamental Interactions: Supplements, Problems and Solutions

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Historical Notes and Fundamental Concepts

   • Sylvie Braibant, Giorgio Giacomelli, Maurizio Spurio

   Pages 1-8

3. Particle Interactions with Matter and Detectors

   • Sylvie Braibant, Giorgio Giacomelli, Maurizio Spurio

   Pages 9-18

4. Particle Accelerators and Particle Detection

   • Sylvie Braibant, Giorgio Giacomelli, Maurizio Spurio

   Pages 19-35

5. The Paradigm of Interactions: The Electromagnetic Case

   • Sylvie Braibant, Giorgio Giacomelli, Maurizio Spurio

   Pages 37-47

6. First Discussion of the Other Fundamental Interactions

   • Sylvie Braibant, Giorgio Giacomelli, Maurizio Spurio

   Pages 49-57

7. Invariance and Conservation Principles

   • Sylvie Braibant, Giorgio Giacomelli, Maurizio Spurio

   Pages 59-64

8. Interactions of Hadrons at Low Energies and the Static Quark Model

   • Sylvie Braibant, Giorgio Giacomelli, Maurizio Spurio

   Pages 65-80

9. Weak Interactions and Neutrinos

   • Sylvie Braibant, Giorgio Giacomelli, Maurizio Spurio

   Pages 81-102

10. Discoveries in Electron–Positron Collisions

    • Sylvie Braibant, Giorgio Giacomelli, Maurizio Spurio

    Pages 103-111

11. High Energy Interactions and the Dynamic Quark Model

    • Sylvie Braibant, Giorgio Giacomelli, Maurizio Spurio

    Pages 113-124

12. The Standard Model of the Microcosm

    • Sylvie Braibant, Giorgio Giacomelli, Maurizio Spurio

    Pages 125-128

13. CP-Violation and Particle Oscillations

    • Sylvie Braibant, Giorgio Giacomelli, Maurizio Spurio

    Pages 129-144

14. Microcosm and Macrocosm

    • Sylvie Braibant, Giorgio Giacomelli, Maurizio Spurio

    Pages 145-162

15. Fundamental Aspects of Nucleon Interactions

    • Sylvie Braibant, Giorgio Giacomelli, Maurizio Spurio

    Pages 163-180

16. Back Matter

    Pages 181-189

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This volume is an exercises and solutions manual that complements the book "Particles and Fundamental Interactions" by Sylvie Braibant, Giorgio Giacomelli, and Maurizio Spurio. It aims to give additional intellectual stimulation for students in experimental particle physics. 

It will be a helpful companion in the preparation of a written examination, but also it provides a means to gaining a deeper understanding of high energy physics. The problems proposed are sometimes true and important research questions, which are described and solved in a step-by-step manner. In addition to the problems and solutions, this book offers fifteen Supplements that give further insight into topical subjects related to particle accelerators, signal and data acquisition systems and computational methods to treat them.

• Giorgio Giacomelli book
• hadrons and quarks
• introduction to elementary particle physics
• nuclear and subnuclear physics
• particle acceleration
• particle and nuclear physics textbook
• positron-electron collisions
• positron-electron collisions
• subatomic structure of matter
• subnuclear physics introduction
• undergraduate particle physics
• weak interaction

From the reviews:

“This book is intended mainly to undergraduate students in experimental and theoretical physics but is also suitable for physics teachers that can find here an extensive collection of exercises (or can be inspired by them). It can be also very useful to all the people that want to approach the subject of modern particle physics and are looking for a good training.” (Philosophy, Religion and Science Book Reviews, bookinspections.wordpress.com, September, 2013)

• Department of Physics and INFN, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

  Sylvie Braibant, Giorgio Giacomelli, Maurizio Spurio

Giorgio M. Giacomelli became full professor of Physics in 1971. He is (co)author of more than 650 publications in scientific journals and over 350 reports and conference proceedings. He supervised 115 Laurea Theses, 30 PhD Theses.  He received prizes from the Italian Physical Society, the University of Bologna and from the A. Della Riccia Foundation. He is “Marchigiano of the year 2006”. In 1981 the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) listed him in the “1000 Contemporary Scientists Most-Cited in 1969-78". He is presently in the Highly Cited list of ISI.
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 atthe 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”.

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