At The Frontier Of Particle Physics: Handbook Of Qcd (Volume 4)


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This is the fourth and last volume of the invaluable publication At the Frontier of Particle Physics: Handbook of QCD. In this volume the reader will find three important sections. The first is devoted to QCD-based phenomenology. It covers issues deeply woven into the fabric of particle physics: weak interactions of light quarks (J Bijnens) and heavy quarkonium physics (A Hoang). The second section is a report on recent advances in the understanding of confinement in three dimensions in the Georgi-Glashow model (I Kogan and A Kovner). The third section deals with lattice QCD (A Kronfeld) and loop equations (A Dubin and Yu Makeenko).The five reviews in Volume 4, together with the 33 reviews in Volumes 1-3, constitute a full encyclopedia, covering all aspects of quantum chromodynamics as we know it today. The articles have been written by recognized experts in this field. Combining features of a handbook and a textbook, this is the most comprehensive source of information on the current status of QCD. It is intended for students as well as physicists — both theorists and experimentalists.







Frontiers of Particle Physics


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The Quantum Theory of Fields: Volume 2, Modern Applications


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The Quantum Theory of Fields, first published in 1996, is a self-contained, comprehensive introduction to quantum field theory from Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg. Volume II gives an account of the methods of quantum field theory, and how they have led to an understanding of the weak, strong, and electromagnetic interactions of the elementary particles. The presentation of modern mathematical methods is throughout interwoven with accounts of the problems of elementary particle physics and condensed matter physics to which they have been applied. Many topics are included that are not usually found in books on quantum field theory. The book is peppered with examples and insights from the author's experience as a leader of elementary particle physics. Exercises are included at the end of each chapter.




Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Physics


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It may tum out that, like certain other phenomena studied by sociologists, bouts of interest in the foundations of quantum mechanics tend to come in 60-year cycles. It is hardly surprising that in the first decade or so of the subject the conceptual puzzles generated by this strange new way of looking at the world should have generated profound interest, not just among professional physicists themselves but also among philosophers and informed laymen; but this intense interest was followed by a fallow period in the forties and fifties when the physics establishment by and large took the view that the only puzzles left were the product either of incompetent application of the formalism or of bad philosophy, and only a few brave individualists like the late David Bohm dared to suggest that maybe there really was something there after all to worry about. As Bell and Nauenberg, surveying the scene in 1966, put it: "The typical physicist feels that [these questions 1 have long ago been answered, and that he will fully understand how if ever he can spare twenty minutes to think about it. " But gradually, through the sixties and seventies, curiosity did revive, and the last ten years or so have seen a level of interest in foundational questions, and an involvement in them by some of the leading figures of contemporary physics, which is probably unparalleled since the earliest days.




BCP4


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This book offers the first strong evidence of the existence of CP violation in neutral B decays extracted from sophisticated B factories in the US and Japan. It also holds out the expectation of rare B decays and D, K physics in the near future. In addition, new physics beyond the Standard Model is described. Both experimental and theoretical points of view are given.




Elementary Particle Physics


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ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES Meeting the need for a coherently written and comprehensive compendium combining field theory and particle physics for advanced students and researchers, this volume directly links the theory to the experiments. It is clearly divided into two sections covering approaches to field theory and the Standard Model, and rounded off with numerous useful appendices. A timely work for high energy and theoretical physicists, as well as astronomers, graduate students and lecturers in physics. From the contents: Particles and Fields Lorentz Invariance Dirac Equation Field Quantization Scattering Matrix QED: Quantum Electrodynamics Radiative Corrections and Tests of Qed Symmetries Path Integral : Basics Path Integral Approach to Field Theory Accelerator and Detector Technology Spectroscopy The Quark Model Weak Interaction Neutral Kaons and CP Violation Hadron Structure Gauge Theories Appendices Volume 2 (2013, ISBN 3-527-40966-1) will concentrate on the main aspects of the Standard Model by addressing its recent developments and future prospects. Furthermore, it will give some thought to intriguing ideas beyond the Standard Model, including the Higgs boson, the neutrino, the concepts of the Grand Unified Theory and supersymmetry, axions, and cosmological developments.




The Hydrogen Atom


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For more than a century, studies of atomic hydrogen have been a rich source of scientific discoveries. These began with the Balmer series in 1885 and the early quantum theories of the atom, and later included the development of QED and the first successful gauge field theory. Today, hydrogen and its relatives continue to provide new fundamental information, as witnessed by the contributions to this book. The printed volume contains invited reviews on the spectroscopy of hydrogen, muonium, positronium, few-electron ions and exotic atoms, together with related topics such as frequency metrology and the determination of fundamental constants. The accompanying CD contains, in addition to these reviews, a further 40 contributed papers also presented at the conference "Hydrogen Atom 2" held in summer 2000. Finally, to facilitate a historical comparison, the CD also contains the proceedings of the first "Hydrogen Atom" conference of 1988. The book includes a foreword by Norman F. Ramsey.







Particle Physics at the Start of the New Millennium


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This proceedings volume deals with a wide variety of topics in particle physics, in both theory and experiment. Contents: On the Fundamental Symmetries in Particle Physics (E Shabalin); Chiral Symmetry in Lattice QCD (A Slavnov); Two-Photon Physics at LEP (G Passaleva); Color Reconnection and Bose-Einstein Correlations at LEP2 (Th Ziegler); A NLO QCD Analysis of the Spin Structure Function g 1 and Higher Twist Correlations (E Leader et al.); Heavy Quark Asymmetries (A Tricomi); Experimental Signature of a Fermiophobic Higgs Boson (L Brecher & R Santos); The AMS Experiment: First Results and Physics Prospects (J P Vialle); Neutrino Conversions in Active Galactic Nuclei (A Husain); Lepton Production by Neutrinos in an External Electromagnetic Field (A Borisov & N Zamorin); Mixing and CP Violation with Quasidegenerate Majorana Neutrinos (G Branko et al.); Solar Neutrino Oscillations in Extensions of the Standard Model (O Boyarkin); Covariant Treatment of Neutrino Spin (Flavour) Conversion in Matter Under the Influence of Electromagnetic Fields (M Dvornikov et al.); Pulsar Velocity Puzzle and Nonstandard Neutrino Oscillations (R Horvat); Kinematic Projecting of Pulsar Profiles (V Bordovitsyn et al.); Late Gravitational Collapse, Quantum Miniholes and the Birth of a New Universe (M Fil''chenkov); On Adelic Strings (B Dragovich); Collider Searches for TeV Scale Quantum Gravity with Compact Extra Dimensions (P Azzurri); and other papers. Readership: High energy physicists and astrophysicists.