Hors d'oeuvre / 1: |
Fundamental Constituents of Matter / 1.1: |
Fundamental Interactions / 1.2: |
Symmetries and Conservation Laws / 1.3: |
Experiments / 1.4: |
Units / 1.5: |
Analysis: The Building Blocks of Matter / Part I: |
Global Properties of Nuclei / 2: |
The Atom and its Constituents / 2.1: |
Nuclides / 2.2: |
Parametrisation of Binding Energies / 2.3: |
Charge Independence of the Nuclear Force and Isospin / 2.4: |
Problem |
Nuclear Stability / 3: |
[beta]-Decay / 3.1: |
[alpha]-Decay / 3.2: |
Nuclear Fission / 3.3: |
Decay of Excited Nuclear States / 3.4: |
Problems |
Scattering / 4: |
General Observations About Scattering Processes / 4.1: |
Cross Sections / 4.2: |
The "Golden Rule" / 4.3: |
Feynman Diagrams / 4.4: |
Geometric Shapes of Nuclei / 5: |
Kinematics of Electron Scattering / 5.1: |
The Rutherford Cross-Section / 5.2: |
The Mott Cross-Section / 5.3: |
Nuclear Form Factors / 5.4: |
Inelastic Nuclear Excitations / 5.5: |
Elastic Scattering off Nucleons / 6: |
Form Factors of the Nucleons / 6.1: |
Quasi-elastic Scattering / 6.2: |
Charge Radii of Pions and Kaons / 6.3: |
Deep Inelastic Scattering / 7: |
Excited States of the Nucleons / 7.1: |
Structure Functions / 7.2: |
The Parton Model / 7.3: |
Interpretation of Structure Functions in the Parton Model / 7.4: |
Quarks, Gluons, and the Strong Interaction / 8: |
The Quark Structure of Nucleons / 8.1: |
Quarks in Hadrons / 8.2: |
The Quark-Gluon Interaction / 8.3: |
Scaling Violations of the Structure Functions / 8.4: |
Particle Production in e[superscript +]e[superscript -] Collisions / 9: |
Lepton Pair Production / 9.1: |
Resonances / 9.2: |
Non-resonant Hadron Production / 9.3: |
Gluon Emission / 9.4: |
Phenomenology of the Weak Interaction / 10: |
Properties of Leptons / 10.1: |
The Types of Weak Interactions / 10.2: |
Coupling Strength of the Weak Interaction / 10.3: |
The Quark Families / 10.4: |
The Lepton families / 10.5: |
Majorana Neutrino? / 10.6: |
Parity Violation / 10.7: |
Deep Inelastic Neutrino Scattering / 10.8: |
Exchange Bosons of the Weak Interaction / 11: |
Real W and Z Bosons / 11.1: |
Electroweak Unification / 11.2: |
The Standard Model / 12: |
Synthesis: Composite Systems / Part II: |
Quarkonia / 13: |
The Hydrogen Atom and Positronium Analogues / 13.1: |
Charmonium / 13.2: |
Quark-Antiquark Potential / 13.3: |
The Chromomagnetic Interaction / 13.4: |
Bottonium and Toponium / 13.5: |
The Decay Channels of Heavy Quarkonia / 13.6: |
Decay Widths as a Test of QCD / 13.7: |
Mesons Made from Light Quarks / 14: |
Mesonic Multiplets / 14.1: |
Meson Masses / 14.2: |
Decay Channels / 14.3: |
Neutral Kaon Decay / 14.4: |
The Baryons / 15: |
The Production and Detection of Baryons / 15.1: |
Baryon Multiplets / 15.2: |
Baryon Masses / 15.3: |
Magnetic Moments / 15.4: |
Semileptonic Baryon Decays / 15.5: |
How Good is the Constituent Quark Concept? / 15.6: |
The Nuclear Force / 16: |
Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering / 16.1: |
The Deuteron / 16.2: |
Nature of the Nuclear Force / 16.3: |
The Structure of Nuclei / 17: |
The Fermi Gas Model / 17.1: |
Hypernuclei / 17.2: |
The Shell Model / 17.3: |
Deformed Nuclei / 17.4: |
Spectroscopy Through Nuclear Reactions / 17.5: |
[beta]-Decay of the Nucleus / 17.6: |
Double [beta]-decay / 17.7: |
Collective Nuclear Excitations / 18: |
Electromagnetic Transitions / 18.1: |
Dipole Oscillations / 18.2: |
Shape Oscillations / 18.3: |
Rotation States / 18.4: |
Nuclear Thermodynamics / 19: |
Thermodynamical Description of Nuclei / 19.1: |
Compound Nuclei and Quantum Chaos / 19.2: |
The Phases of Nuclear Matter / 19.3: |
Particle Physics and Thermodynamics in the Early Universe / 19.4: |
Stellar Evolution and Element Synthesis / 19.5: |
Many-Body Systems in the Strong Interaction / 20: |
Appendix / A: |
Accelerators / A.1: |
Detectors / A.2: |
Combining Angular Momenta / A.3: |
Physical Constants / A.4: |
Solutions to the Problems |
References |
Index |
Hors d'oeuvre / 1: |
Fundamental Constituents of Matter / 1.1: |
Fundamental Interactions / 1.2: |