Povh / Rith / Scholz Particles and Nuclei

An Introduction to the Physical Concepts
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-3-642-97653-7
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 340 Seiten, eBook

The aim of PARTICLES AND NUCLEI is to give a unified description of nuclear and particle physics because the experiments which have uncovered the substructure of atomic nuclei and nucleons are conceptually similar. With the progress of experimental and theoretical methods, atoms, nuclei, nucleons, and finally quarks have been analysed during the course of this century. The intuitive assumption that our world is composed of a few constituents - an idea which seems attractive, but could not be taken for granted - appears to be confirmed. Moreover, the interactions between these constituents of matter can be formulated elegantly, and are well understood conceptionally, within the so-called "standard model" . we have arrived at this underlying theory we are immediately faced Once with the question of how the complex structures around us are produced by it. On the way from elementary particles to nucleons and nuclei we learn that the "fundamental" laws of the interaction between elementary particles are less and less recognizable in composite systems because many-body interactions cause greater and greater complexity for larger systems. This book is therefore divided into two parts. In the first part we deal with the reduction of matter in all its complication to a few elementary constituents and interactions, while the second part is devoted to the composition of hadrons and nuclei from their constituents.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Povh, Bogdan

Rith, Klaus

Scholz, Christoph

Zetsche, Frank

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lavelle, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Hors d’œuvre.- 1.1 Fundamental Constituents of Matter.- 1.2 Fundamental Interactions.- 1.3 Symmetries and Conservation Laws.- 1.4 Experiments.- 1.5 Units.- I Analysis: the Building Blocks of Matter.- 2. Global Properties of Nuclei.- 3. Nuclear Stability.- 4. Scattering.- 5. Geometric Shapes of Nuclei.- 6. Elastic Scattering off Nucleons.- 7. Deep Inelastic Scattering.- 8. Quarks, Gluons, and the Strong Interaction.- 9. Particle Production in e+e- Collisions.- 10. Phenomenology of the Weak Interaction.- 11. Exchange Bosons of the Weak Interaction.- 12. The Standard Model.- II Synthesis: Composite Systems.- 13. Quarkonia.- 14. Mesons Made from Light Quarks.- 15. The Baryons.- 16. The Nuclear Force.- 17. The Structure of Nuclei.- 18. Collective Nuclear Excitations.- 19. Many-Body Systems in the Strong Interaction.- A. Appendix.- Problems.- Solutions.- References.