Particles and nuclei
Subtitle: an introduction to the physical concepts
By: Bogdan Povh ... [et al.] ; translated by Martin Lavelle
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9783540793670
Subjects: Physique nucléaire; Particles (Nuclear physics); Nuclear physics; Elementaire deeltjes; Atoomkernen; Particules (Physique nucléaire); Atoomfysica
Work titles: Teilchen und Kerne. English
Description: "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 number of 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. A section on neutrino oscillations and one on nuclear matter at high temperatures bridge the field of "nuclear and particle physics" and "modern astrophysics and cosmology': The new edition incorporates a large amount of new experimental results on deep-elastic scattering (obtained at the Electron-Proton Collider HEAR at DESY in Hamburg) into chapters 7 and 8"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-391) and index.
Table of contents: title: 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.