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| Preface to Second Edition | |
| Notes | |
| Basic Concepts | |
| History | |
| Relativity and Antiparticles | |
| Space-Time Symmetries and Conservation Laws | |
| Interactions and Feynman Diagrams | |
| Particle Exchange: Forces and Potentials | |
| Observable Quantities: Cross-sections and Decay Rates | |
| Units: Length, Mass and Energy | |
| Problems | |
| Nuclear Phenomenology | |
| Mass Spectroscopy | |
| Nuclear Shapes and Sizes | |
| Semi-Empirical Mass Formula: the Liquid Drop Model | |
| Nuclear Instability | |
| Radioactive Decay | |
| +&Decay Phenomenology | |
| Fission | |
| +&Decays | |
| Nuclear Reactions | |
| Problems | |
| Particle Phenomenology | |
| Leptons | |
| Quarks | |
| Hadrons | |
| Problems | |
| Experimental Methods | |
| Overview | |
| Accelerators and Beams | |
| Particle Interactions with Matter | |
| Particle Detectors | |
| Multi-Component Detector Systems | |
| Problems | |
| Quark Dynamics: The Strong Interaction | |
| Colour | |
| Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) | |
| Heavy Quark Bound States | |
| The Strong Coupling Constant and Asymptotic Freedom | |
| Quark-Gluon Plasma | |
| Jets and Gluons | |
| Colour Counting | |
| Deep Inelastic Scattering and Nucleon Structure | |
| Problems | |
| Weak Interactions And Electroweak Unification | |
| Charged and Neutral Currents | |
| Symmetries of the Weak Interaction | |
| Spin Structure of the Weak Interactions | |
| W-& and Z 0 Bosons | |
| Weak Interactions of Hadrons: Charged Currents | |
| Meson Decays and CP Violation | |
| Neutral Currents and the Unified Theory | |
| Problems | |
| Models And Theories Of Nuclear Physics | |
| The Nucleon-Nucleon Potential | |
| Fermi Gas Model | |
| Shell Model | |
| Non-Spherical Nuclei | |
| Summary of Nuclear Structure Models | |
| +&-Decay | |
| +&-Decay | |
| +&-Emission and Internal Conversion | |
| Problems | |
| Applications Of Nuclear Physics | |
| Fission | |
| Fusion | |
| Nuclear Weapons | |
| Biomedical applications | |
| Problems | |
| Outstanding Questions and Future Prospects | |
| Overview | |
| Hadrons and Nuclei | |
| The Origin of Mass: the Higgs Boson | |
| The Nature of the Neutrino | |
| Beyond the Standard Model: Unification Schemes | |
| Particle Astrophysics | |
| Nuclear Medicine | |
| Power Production and Nuclear Waste | |
| Some Results In Quantum Mechanics | |
| Barrier Penetration | |
| Density of States | |
| Perturbation Theory and the Second Golden Rule | |
| Isospin Formalism | |
| Isospin operators and quark states | |
| Hadron states | |
| Relativistic Kinematics | |
| Lorentz Transformations and Four-Vectors | |
| Frames of Reference | |
| Invariants | |
| Problems B | |
| Rutherford Scattering | |
| Classical Physics | |
| Quantum Mechanics | |
| Problems C | |
| Gauge Theories | |
| Gauge Invariance and the Standard Model | |
| Electromagnetism and the gauge principle | |
| The standard model | |
| Particle Masses and the Higgs Field | |
| Data | |
| Physical Constants and Conversion Factors | |
| Tables of Particle Properties | |
| Gauge bosons | |
| Leptons | |
| Quarks | |
| Baryons | |
| Mesons | |
| Tables of Nuclear Properties | |
| Properties of naturally occurring isotopes | |
| The periodic table | |
| Solutions To Problems | |
| References | |
| Bibliography | |
| In | |
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