Overview
- Provides summaries, problem sets and solutions, a glossary, and other helpful resources
- Based on a comprehensive set of course notes for third- and fourth-year physics undergraduates
- Includes the latest experimental research on the top quark and Higgs boson
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Texts in Physics (UNTEPH)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- introduction to Nuclei and Particles
- nuclear physics undergrad
- particle physics undergrad
- nuclear physics textbook
- particle physics textbook
- nuclear physics introduction
- particle physics introduction
- accelerators explained
- Large Hadron Collider physics
- Mesons and Baryons introduction
- Basics of strong interactions
- Basics of electroweak interactions
- Higgs Boson physics
- what is isospin
- what is the top quark
- Parity and Charge conjugation
- Nuclear binding energy
About this book
This undergraduate textbook breaks down the basics of Nuclear Structure and modern Particle Physics. Based on a comprehensive set of course notes, it covers all the introductory material and latest research developments required by third- and fourth-year physics students.
The textbook is divided into two parts. Part I deals with Nuclear Structure, while Part II delves into Particle Physics. Each section contains the most recent science in the field, including experimental data and research on the properties of the top quark and Higgs boson. Detailed mathematical derivations are provided where necessary to helps students grasp the physics at a deeper level. Many of these have been conveniently placed in the Appendices and can be omitted if desired.
Each chapter ends with a brief summary and includes a number of practice problems, the answers to which are also provided.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Professor Belyaev obtained his PhD at Moscow State University in 1996, followed by postdoctoral research at Sao Paulo, CERN, Florida State and Michigan State Universities. He joined the University of Southampton as a lecturer in 2007 and became a full professor in 2014. He works on the phenomenology of beyond the Standard Model theories, including their collider and cosmological implications. His recent studies are devoted to theories of Dark Matter. He has worked in close contact with experimental groups, in particular, from 2007 he is a full member of the CMS collaboration at CERN. He is one of the developers of the CalcHEP, the package for the automatic evaluation and simulation of particles decay and scattering processes. In 2011, he pioneered the High Energy Physics Model Database, HEPMDB, project.
Professor Ross obtained his PhD under the supervision of J.C.Taylor. He had post-doctoral fellowships at Imperial College, Utrecht, CERN and Caltech, before arriving atSouthampton University. He has worked on the application of perturbative gauge theories to both strong (QCD) and electroweak interactions. Much of his latter work was devoted to the study of the pomeron in QCD. He is a coauthor of a textbook on this subject. He became a full professor at Southampton University in 1994 and was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 2005.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Basics of Nuclear and Particle Physics
Authors: Alexander Belyaev, Douglas Ross
Series Title: Undergraduate Texts in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80116-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80115-1Published: 09 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-80116-8Published: 08 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2510-411X
Series E-ISSN: 2510-4128
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 401
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 137 illustrations in colour
Topics: Particle and Nuclear Physics, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Physics