Particles and nuclei: an introduction to the physical concepts

This well-established textbook gives a uniform and unique presentation of both nuclear and particle physics. Analysis, Part 1, is devoted to disentangling the substructure of matter. This part shows that experiments designed to uncover the substructures of nuclei and nucleons have a similar conceptual basis, and lead to the present picture of all matter being built out of a small numberof elementary building blocks and a small number of fundamental interactions.Synthesis, Part 2, shows how the elementary particles may be combined to build hadrons and nuclei. The fundamental interactions responsible for the forces in all systems become less and less evident in increasingly complex systems. Asection on neutrino oscillations and one on nuclear matter at high temperatures bridge the field of ‘nuclear and particle physics’ and ‘modern astrophysicsand cosmology’. To cope with modern developments especially in nuclear physics research this textbook presents nuclear and particle physics from a unifyingpoint of view The most spectacular new results on deep inelastic scattering are included INDICE: Hors d'oeuvre.- Analysis: The Building Blocks of Matter.- Global Properties of Nuclei.- Nuclear Stability.- Scattering.- Geometric Shapes of Nuclei.- Elastic Scattering of Nucleons.- Deep Inelastic Scattering.- Quarks, Gluons, and the Strong Interaction.- Particle Production in e+e- Collisions.- Phenomenology of the Weak Interaction.- Exchange Bosons of the Weak Interaction.-The Standard Model.- Synthesis: Composite Systems.- Quarkonia.- Mesons Made from Light Quarks.- The Baryons.- The Nuclear Force.- The Structure of Nuclei.-Collective Nuclear Excitations.- Nuclear Thermodynamics.- Many-Body Systems in the Strong Interaction.- Appendix.- Solutions to the Problems.- References.-Index.

• ISBN: 978-3-540-79367-0
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 410
• Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés