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Introduction to Nuclear and
Particle Physics A Das and T. Ferbel Second Edition |
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The original edition of
Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics was used with
great success for single-semester courses on nuclear and particle physics
offered by American and Canadian universities at the undergraduate level. It
was also translated into German, and used overseas. Being less formal but
well-written, this book is a good vehicle for learning the more intuitive
rather than formal aspects of the subject. It is therefore of value to
scientists with a minimal background in quantum mechanics, but is
sufficiently substantive to have been recommended for graduate students
interested in the fields covered in the text. In the second edition,
the material begins with an exceptionally clear development of Rutherford
scattering and, in the four following chapters, discusses sundry
phenomenological issues concerning nuclear properties and structure, and
general applications of radioactivity and of the nuclear force. This is
followed by two chapters dealing with interactions of particles in matter,
and how these characteristics are used to detect and identify such particles.
A chapter on accelerators rounds out the experimental aspects of the field.
The final seven chapters deal with elementary-particle phenomena, both before
and after the realization of the standard model. This is interspersed with
discussion of symmetries in classical physics and in the quantum domain,
bringing into full focus the issues concerning CP violation, isotopic spin,
and other symmetries. The final three chapters devoted to the Standard Model
and to possibly new physics beyond it, emphasizing unification of forces, supersymmetry, and other exciting areas of current research. The book contains several
appendices on related subjects, such as special relativity, the nature of
symmetry groups, etc. There are also many examples and problems in the text that
are of value in gauging the reader's understanding of the material. |
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