Nuclear and Particle Physics: (IOP Expanding Physics)

Nuclear and Particle Physics provides an introductory course on nuclear and particle physics for undergraduate and early-graduate students, which the author 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 The discovery of the atomic nucleus 2 The nuclear radius 3 Nuclear masses 4 Radioactive decay 5 Nuclear stability 6 The nuclear shell model 7 Elementary particles 8 Relativistic kinematics 9 Accelerators and detectors 10 The quark model 11 Conservation laws 12 Hadronic interactions 13 Weak interactions 14 Neutrinos 15 The Dirac equation 16 The electroweak interaction 17 Applications of the standard model 18 Deep inelastic electron–proton scattering 19 The K0 − K 0 system 20 The B0 − B 0 system

About the Author :
Claude Amsler studied experimental physics at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. He worked as a research associate at Queen Mary College in London, TRIUMF in Vancouver, the University of New Mexico and Brookhaven National Laboratory. After a CERN fellowship and a brief stay at the University of Munich he joined the Physics Institute of the University of Zurich, where he became full professor of physics in 1999. He has supervised 40 doctoral and master’s theses. He is now professor emeritus and a member of the senior staff at the Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern. His main fields of interest are strong interaction physics and meson spectroscopy. He is a member of the CMS Collaboration and of the Particle Data Group. He is currently involved in antihydrogen experiments at CERN. Claude Amsler studied experimental physics at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. He worked as a research associate at Queen Mary College in London, TRIUMF in Vancouver, the University of New Mexico and Brookhaven National Laboratory. After a CERN fellowship and a brief stay at the University of Munich he joined the Physics Institute of the University of Zurich, where he became full professor of physics in 1999. He has supervised 40 doctoral and master’s theses. He is now professor emeritus and a member of the senior staff at the Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern. His main fields of interest are strong interaction physics and meson spectroscopy. He is a member of the CMS Collaboration and of the Particle Data Group. He is currently involved in antihydrogen experiments at CERN.

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