Subatomic Physics

by Henley, Ernest M.; Garcia, Alejandro

• ISBN13: 9789812700568
• ISBN10: 9812700560
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-30
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

This is the third and fully updated edition of the classic textbook on physics at the subatomic level. An up-to-date and lucid introduction to both particle and nuclear physics, the book is suitable for both experimental and theoretical physics students at the senior undergraduate and beginning graduate levels. Topics are introduced with key experiments and their background, encouraging students to think and empowering them with the capability of doing back-of-the-envelope calculations in a diversity of situations. Earlier important experiments and concepts as well as topics of current interest are covered, with extensive use of photographs and figures to convey principal concepts and show experimental data.

Table of Contents

Background and language	p. 1
Tools	p. 11
Accelerators	p. 13
Passage of radiation through matter	p. 39
Detectors	p. 53
Particles and nuclei	p. 77
The subatomic zoo	p. 79
Structure of subatomic particles	p. 135
Symmetries and conservation laws	p. 195
Additive conservation laws	p. 197
Angular momentum and isospin	p. 221
P, C, CP, and T	p. 239
Interactions	p. 279
The electromagnetic interaction	p. 281
The weak interaction	p. 331
Introduction to gauge theories	p. 383
The electroweak theory of the standard model	p. 403
Strong interactions	p. 421
Models	p. 469
Quark models of mesons and baryons	p. 471
Liquid drop model, fermi gas model, heavy ions	p. 501
The shell model	p. 521
Collective model	p. 543
Nuclear and particle astrophysics	p. 579
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