Nuclear and Particle Physics: (Nuclear and Particle Physics)

Nuclear and Particle Physics provides an introductory course on nuclear and particle physics for undergraduate and early-graduate students, which the author has taught for several years at the University of Zurich. It contains fundamentals on both nuclear and particle physics, giving emphasis to the discovery and history of developments in the field, and is experimentally/phenomenologically oriented, often illustrated with intuitive arguments. It contains detailed derivations of formulae that are hard to find elsewhere; for example 2-3 body phase space, the Weinberg-Salam model, and neutrino scattering. Originally published in German as Kern- und Teilchenphysik, it became one of the standard textbooks on the subject in German-speaking countries. Updated and translated for IOP Expanding Physics, this new version includes modern topics, in particular updates on neutrinos, the Higgs boson, the top quark and bottom quark physics.

Table of Contents:
1 Discovery of the atomic nucleus 2 Nuclear radius 3 Nuclear masses 4 Radioactive decay 5 Nuclear stability6 Nuclear shell model 7 Elementary particles 8 Relativistic kinematics 9 Accelerators and detectors 10 Quark model 11 Conservation laws 12 Hadronic interactions 13 Weak interactions 14 Neutrinos 15 Dirac Equation 16 Electroweak interaction 17 Applications of the Standard Model 18 Deep inelastic electron-proton scattering 19 The K0 - K0 mesons 20 The B0 - B0 mesons A CKM matrix and CP violation B SU(3) wave functions of the light ground state mesons C Mass formula D SU(3) wave functions of the light ground state baryons E Infinitesimal gauge field transformationGlossary

About the Author :
Claude Amsler is Professor Emeritus at the University of Zurich, and a senior staff member with the Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics of the University of Bern. He studied experimental physics at ETH-Zurich and obtained his PhD in 1975 with the first particle physics experiment performed at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). In 1979 he obtained a CERN Fellowship, and in 1982 joined the Physik-Institut of the University of Zurich, where he was elected Associate Professor in 1987, and Full Professor in 1999. He has supervised some 40 PhD & Master theses at the Faculty of Sciences.

Review :
The textbook is interesting for undergraduates and graduate students, and from a pedagogical view point it could also be useful for teachers. Mustapha Oulne 2015 Zentralblatt MATH 1335, FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure