Preface |
Notes |
Basic concepts / 1: |
History / 1.1: |
The origins of nuclear physics / 1.1.1: |
The emergence of particle physics: hadrons and quarks / 1.1.2: |
The standard model of particle physics / 1.1.3: |
Relativity and antiporticles / 1.2: |
Space-time symmetries and conservation laws / 1.3: |
Parity / 1.3.1: |
Charge conjugation / 1.3.2: |
Time reversal / 1.3.3: |
Interactions and Feynman diagrams / 1.4: |
Interactions / 1.4.1: |
Feynman diagrams / 1.4.2: |
Particle exchange: forces and potentials / 1.5: |
Range of forces / 1.5.1: |
The Yukawa potential / 1.5.2: |
Observable quantities: cross-sections and decay rates / 1.6: |
Amplitudes / 1.6.1: |
Cross-sections / 1.6.2: |
The basic scattering formulas / 1.6.3: |
Unstable states / 1.6.4: |
Units / 1.7: |
Problems 1 |
Nuclear phenomenology / 2: |
Mass spectroscopy / 2.1: |
Deflection spectrometers / 2.1.1: |
Kinematic analysis / 2.1.2: |
Penning trap measurements / 2.1.3: |
Nuclear shapes and sizes / 2.2: |
Charge distribution / 2.2.1: |
Matter distribution / 2.2.2: |
Semi-empirical mass formula: the liquid drop model / 2.3: |
Binding energies / 2.3.1: |
Semi-empirical mass formula / 2.3.2: |
Nuclear instability / 2.4: |
Decay chains / 2.5: |
ß decay phenomenology / 2.6: |
Odd-mass nuclei / 2.6.1: |
Even-mass nuclei / 2.6.2: |
Fission / 2.7: |
¿ decays / 2.8: |
Nuclear reactions / 2.9: |
Problems 2 |
Particle phenomenology / 3: |
Leptons / 3.1: |
Lepton multiplets and lepton numbers / 3.1.1: |
Universal lepton interactions; the number of neutrinos / 3.1.2: |
Neutrinos / 3.1.3: |
Neutrino mixing and oscillations / 3.1.4: |
Oscillation experiments / 3.1.5: |
Neutrino masses and mixing angles / 3.1.0: |
Lepton numbers revisited / 3.1.7: |
Quarks / 3.2: |
Evidence for quarks / 3.2.1: |
Quark generations and quark numbers / 3.2.2: |
Hadrons / 3.3: |
Flavour independence and charge multiplets / 3.3.1: |
The simple quark model / 3.3.2: |
Hadron decays and lifetimes / 3.3.3: |
Hadron magnetic moments and masses / 3.3.4: |
Heavy quarkonia / 3.3.5: |
Allowed and exotic quantum numbers / 3.3.6: |
Problems 3 |
Experimental methods / 4: |
Overview / 4.1: |
Accelerators and beams / 4.2: |
DC accelerators / 4.2.1: |
AC accelerators / 4.2.2: |
Neutral and unstable particle beams / 4.2.3: |
Particle interactions with matter / 4.3: |
Short-range interactions with nuclei / 4.3.1: |
Ionisation energy losses / 4.3.2: |
Radiation energy losses / 4.3.3: |
Interactions of photons in matter |
Ranges and interaction lengths |
Particle detectors / 4.4: |
Gaseous ionisation detectors / 4.4.1: |
Scintillation counters / 4.4.2: |
Semiconductor detectors / 4.4.3: |
Cerenkov counters and transition radiation / 4.4.4: |
Calorimeters / 4.4.5: |
Detector Systems / 4.5: |
Problems 4 |
Quark dynamics: the strong interaction / 5: |
Colour / 5.1: |
Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) / 5.2: |
The strong coupling constant / 5.2.1: |
Screening, antiscreening and asymptotic freedom / 5.2.2: |
New forms of matter / 5.3: |
Exotic hadrons / 5.3.1: |
The quark-gluon plasma / 5.3.2: |
Jets and gluons / 5.4: |
Colour counting / 5.4.1: |
Deep inelastic scattering and nucleoli structure / 5.5: |
Scaling / 5.5.1: |
The quark-par ton model / 5.5.2: |
Scaling violations and parton distributions / 5.5.3: |
Inelastic neutrino scattering / 5.5.4: |
Other processes / 5.0: |
Jets / 5.0.1: |
Lepton pair production / 5.0.2: |
Current and constituent quarks / 5.7: |
Problems 5 |
Weak interactions and electroweak unification / 6: |
Charged and neutral currents / 6.1: |
Charged current reactions / 6.2: |
W-lepton interactions / 6.2.1: |
Lepton-quark symmetry and mixing / 6.2.2: |
W-boson decays / 6.2.3: |
Charged current selection rules / 6.2.4: |
The third generation / 6.3: |
More quark mixing / 6.3.1: |
Properties of the top quark / 6.3.2: |
Neutral currents and the unified theory / 6.4: |
Electroweak unification / 0.4.1: |
The Z° vertices and electroweak reactions / 6.4.2: |
Gauge invariance and the Higgs boson / 6.5: |
Unification and the gauge principle / 6.5.1: |
Particle masses and the Higgs held / 6.5.2: |
Properties of the Higgs boson / 6.5.3: |
Discovery of the Higgs boson / 6.5.4: |
Problems 0 |
Symmetry breaking in the weak interaction / 7: |
P violation, C violation, and CP conservation / 7.1: |
Muon decay symmetries / 7.1.1: |
Parity violation in electro weak processes / 7.1.2: |
Spin structure of the weak interactions / 7.2: |
Left-handed neutrinos and right-handed antineutrinos / 7.2.1: |
Particles with mass: chirality / 7.2.2: |
Neutral kaons: particle-antiparticle mixing and CP violation / 7.3: |
CP invariance and neutral kaons / 7.3.1: |
CP violation in K0L decay / 7.3.2: |
Flavour oscillations and CPT invariance / 7.3.3: |
CP violation and flavour oscillations in B decays / 7.4: |
Direct CP violation in decay rates / 7.4.1: |
B0-B0 mixing / 7.4.2: |
CP violation in interference / 7.4.3: |
CP violation in the standard model / 7.5: |
Problems 7 |
Models and theories of nuclear physics / 8: |
The nucleon-nucleon potential / 8.1: |
Fermi gas model / 8.2: |
Shell model / 8.3: |
Shell structure of atoms / 8.3.1: |
Nuclear shell structure and magic numbers / 8.3.2: |
Spins, parities, and magnetic dipole moments |
Excited states |
Nonspbcrical nuclei / 8.4: |
Electric quadrupole moments / 8.4.1: |
Collective model / 8.4.2: |
Summary of nuclear structure models / 8.5: |
¿ decay / 8.6: |
ß decay / 8.7: |
V - A theory / 8.7.1: |
Electron and positron momentum distributions / 8.7.2: |
Selection rules / 8.7.3: |
Applications of Fermi theory / 8.7.4: |
Transition rates / 8.8: |
Problems 8 |
Applications of nuclear and particle physics / 9: |
Induced fission and chain reactions / 9.1: |
Thermal fission reactors / 9.1.2: |
Radioactive waste / 9.1.3: |
Power from ADS systems / 9.1.4: |
Fusion / 9.2: |
Coulomb barrier / 9.2.1: |
Fusion reaction rates / 9.2.2: |
Nucleosynthesis and stellar evolution / 9.2.3: |
Fusion reactors / 9.2.4: |
Nuclear weapons / 9.3: |
Fission devices / 9.3.1: |
Fission/fusion devices / 9.3.2: |
Biomedical applications / 9.4: |
Radiation and living matter / 9.4.1: |
Radiation therapy / 9.4.2: |
Medical imaging using ionising radiation / 9.4.3: |
Magnetic resonance imaging / 9.4.4: |
Further applications / 9.5: |
Computing and data analysis / 9.5.1: |
Archaeology and geophysics / 9.5.2: |
Accelerators and detectors / 9.5.3: |
Industrial applications / 9.5.4: |
Problems 9 |
Some outstanding questions and future prospects / 10: |
Hadrons and nuclei / 10.1: |
Hadron structure and the nuclear environment / 10.2.1: |
Nuclear structure / 10.2.2: |
Unification schemes / 10.3: |
Grand unification / 10.3.1: |
Supersymmetry / 10.3.2: |
Strings and things / 10.3.3: |
The nature of the neutrino / 10.4: |
Neutrinoless double beta decay / 10.4.1: |
Particle astrophysics / 10.5: |
Neutrino astrophysics / 10.5.1: |
Cosmology and dark matter / 10.5.2: |
Matter antimatter asymmetry / 10.5.3: |
Axioms and the strong CP problem / 10.5.4: |
Some results in quantum mechanics / A: |
Barrier penetration / A.1: |
Density of states / A.2: |
Perturbation theory and the Second Golden Rule / A.3: |
Isospin formalism / A.4: |
Isospin operators and quark states / A.4.1: |
Hadron states / A.4.2: |
Problems A |
Relativistic kinematics / B: |
Loreutz transformations and four-vectors / B.1: |
Frames of reference / B.2: |
Invariants / B.3: |
Problems B |
Rutherford scattering / C: |
Classical physios / C.1: |
Quantum mechanics / C.2: |
Problems C |
Gauge theories / D: |
Gauge invariance and the standard model / D.1: |
Electromagnetism and the gauge principle / D.1.1: |
The standard model / D.1.2: |
Problems D / D.2: |
Short answers to selected problems / E: |
References |
Index |
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