Category: Particle Physics

By Jörg Resag

Mitten in Europa ist eine der größten und komplexesten Maschinen in Betrieb gegangen, die wir Menschen je gebaut haben: der huge Hadron Collider (kurz LHC). Mit ihm öffnet sich ein Fenster in eine neue Welt, die viele Geheimnisse birgt: was once verleiht den Teilchen der Materie ihre Masse? Gibt es verborgene Raumdimensionen? Existiert ein tiefer Zusammenhang zwischen Teilchen mit verschiedenem Spin (Supersymmetrie)? Woraus besteht die dunkle Materie, die unser Universum durchdringt? Gibt es das Higgs-Teilchen?

Mit diesem Buch taucht der Leser ein in diese wunderbare Welt, die wir Menschen in der Neuzeit entdeckt haben: Atome und ihre Substruktur aus Quarks und Leptonen, die rätselhafte Quantenmechanik, Teilchen des Lichts, Einsteins Gewebe aus Raum und Zeit, die vier Wechselwirkungen und schließlich die neue Welt, in die der LHC gerade vordringt und in der wir Higgs-Teilchen, Supersymmetrie und womöglich erste Anzeichen für die String-Theorie vermuten. Die erste Vermutung konnte mittlerweile bestätigt werden: Im Sommer 2012 wurde am LHC die Entdeckung des Higgs-Teilchens bekannt gegeben.

Nach der Lektüre ist klar: Wir leben in einer erstaunlichen Welt und sind gerade im Begriff, bei der Enträtselung ihrer Geheimnisse einen entscheidenden Schritt nach vorne zu gehen. Für die 2. Auflage hat der Autor das Buch aktualisiert und um neueste Erkenntnisse ergänzt.

Über den Autor:

Jörg Resag hat in Bonn Physik und Astronomie studiert und in theoretischer Physik über die Quarkstruktur von Elementarteilchen promoviert.
Er arbeitet derzeit in der chemisch-pharmazeutischen Industrie.
Im Spektrum-Verlag ist 2012 sein zweites Buch "Zeitpfad -- Die Geschichte unseres Universums und unseres Planeten" erschienen.

Leserstimmen zur ersten Auflage:

Dem theoretischen Physiker Jörg Resag ist ein sehr interessantes, unterhaltsames und didaktisch exzellentes Buch gelungen, das sowohl interessierten Laien wie Experten die Geheimnisse der Quantenphysik, das Standardmodell, die Relativitätstheorie und Kosmologie und schließlich die Superstrings vorstellt. (...) Sehr komplexe Zusammenhänge werden sehr klar und verständlich erläutert.

Treffpunkt Buch plus

Kein einfaches, aber dafür höchst empfehlenswertes Werk.

ekz-Informationsdienst

By Eugenio Nappi

Content material:
Chapter 1 advent (pages 1–20):
Chapter 2 simple tactics in Gaseous Detectors (pages 21–51):
Chapter three conventional Position?Sensitive Gaseous Detectors and Their historic improvement: From the Geiger Counter to the Multi?wire Proportional Chamber (1905 until eventually 1968) (pages 53–83):
Chapter four The Multi cord Proportional Chamber period (pages 85–90):
Chapter five extra extensive approximately Gaseous Detectors (pages 91–144):
Chapter 6 New rules on Gaseous Detectors Conceived through the Early Years of the “Multi twine Proportional Chambers” period (1968–1977) (pages 145–159):
Chapter 7 advancements in MWPCs, PPACs, and RPCs after 1977 (pages 161–213):
Chapter eight Micropattern Gaseous Detectors (pages 215–249):
Chapter nine purposes of Imaging Gaseous Detectors (pages 251–311):
Chapter 10 Conclusions (pages 313–317):

By John M. Cornwall

Non-Abelian gauge theories, equivalent to quantum chromodynamics (QCD) or electroweak conception, are top studied simply by Green's services which are gauge-invariant off-shell, yet not like for the photon in quantum electrodynamics, traditional graphical structures fail. The Pinch strategy presents a scientific framework for developing such Green's capabilities, and has many helpful functions. starting with straight forward one-loop examples, this publication is going directly to expand the strategy to all orders, exhibiting that the Pinch approach is corresponding to calculations within the historical past box Feynman gauge. The Pinch strategy Schwinger-Dyson equations are derived, and used to teach how a dynamical gluon mass arises in QCD. purposes are given to the guts vortex photograph of confinement, the gauge-invariant remedy of resonant amplitudes, the definition of non-Abelian potent fees, high-temperature results, or even supersymmetry. This e-book is perfect for ordinary particle theorists and graduate scholars.

By Yuri Dokshitzer

By J. C. Polkinghorne

This publication used to be initially released in 1980. Theoretical physics makes wide use of types to check and enhance instinct. This monograph seeks to supply an creation to high-energy version making. Its goal is to provide an explanation for the fundamental rules in a sort available to graduate scholars and different readers who've got a first-hand wisdom of quantum box concept and uncomplicated particle physics, together with the weather of Regge thought. It describes significant calculational recommendations including enough actual functions to demonstrate their application. No try out has been made to be encyclopaedic, for an exhaustive therapy of each software could have created a quantity too huge for the easy pedagogic function meant.

By V. N. Gribov

This paintings presents a different advent to the speculation of advanced angular momenta, in accordance with the equipment of box thought. It contains an English translation of a lecture direction given by way of Vladimir Gribov in 1969. along with their ancient value, those lectures comprise fabric hugely proper to investigate this day and sure to shape the foundation for destiny advancements within the topic.

By Mark Thomson

Designated in its assurance of all features of contemporary particle physics, this textbook presents a transparent connection among the speculation and up to date experimental effects, together with the invention of the Higgs boson at CERN. It offers a accomplished and self-contained description of the normal version of particle physics appropriate for upper-level undergraduate scholars and graduate scholars learning experimental particle physics. actual conception is brought in a simple demeanour with complete mathematical derivations all through. Fully-worked examples permit scholars to hyperlink the mathematical concept to effects from smooth particle physics experiments. End-of-chapter routines, graded through hassle, supply scholars with a deeper realizing of the topic. on-line assets to be had at www.cambridge.org/MPP function password-protected fully-worked options to difficulties for teachers, numerical options and tricks to the issues for college kids and PowerPoint slides and JPEGs of figures from the ebook.

By V. Alan Kostelecky

This e-book comprises the court cases of the 5th assembly on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry, held at Indiana college in Bloomington from June 28 to July 2, 2010. The assembly desirous about checks of those primary symmetries and on comparable theoretical concerns, together with situations for attainable violations. subject matters coated on the assembly contain searches for CPT and Lorentz violations regarding: birefringence and dispersion from cosmological resources, clock-comparison measurements, CMB polarization, electromagnetic resonant cavities, equivalence precept, gauge and Higgs debris, high-energy astrophysical observations, laboratory and gravimetric exams of gravity, topic interferometry, neutrino oscillations, oscillations and decays of K,D,B mesons, particle-antiparticle comparisons, post-newtonian gravity within the sunlight procedure and past, moment- and third-generation debris, space-based missions, spectroscopy of hydrogen and antihydrogen, and spin polarized subject. Theoretical discussions comprise actual results on the point of the normal version, basic Relativity, and past; the prospective origins and mechanisms for Lorentz and CPT violations; and comparable classical and quantum matters in box thought, particle physics, gravity, and string concept.

By Frank Hartmann

This informative monograph describes the technological evolution of silicon detectors and their influence on excessive- power particle physics. the writer the following marshals his personal first-hand event within the improvement and likewise the conclusion of the DELPHI, CDF II and the CMS monitoring detector. the elemental ideas of small strip- and pixel-detectors are provided and in addition the ultimate large-scale purposes. The Evolution of Silicon Detector expertise acquaints readers with the manifold demanding situations regarding the layout of sensors and pushing this expertise to the boundaries. The specialist will locate severe info that's thus far merely to be had in numerous slide presentation scattered over the realm huge internet. This sensible creation of silicon sensor know-how and its daily existence within the lab additionally deals many examples to demonstrate difficulties and their suggestions over numerous detector generations.

By Kerson Huang

The most content material of this publication is an creation to Yang-mills fields and the traditional version of particle physics. A concise advent to quarks is supplied, with a dialogue of the representations of SU(3). the normal version is gifted intimately, together with such subject matters because the Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix, chiral symmetry breaking and the omega-vacuum. Theoretical themes of a extra normal nature contain direction integrals, topological solitons, renormalization team, potent potentials, the axial anomaly and lattice gauge idea. This moment version has been accelerated and comprises Wilson's renormalization scheme, and its relation to perturbative renormalization; pitfalls in quantizing gauge fields, resembling the Gribov ambiguity; the lattice as a constant regularization; Monte Carlo tools of answer; and the problems, folklores and eventualities of quark confinement.