Particles and Nuclei: An Introduction to the Physical Concepts - Softcover

Povh, Bogdan; Rith, Klaus; Scholz, Christoph; Zetsche, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3540594396 ISBN 13: 9783540594390

Publisher: Springer, 1995

Synopsis

A unified presentation of nuclear and particle physics from an experimental point of view. The first part of the book is devoted to disentangling the substructure of matter, showing that experiments designed to uncover the substructures of nuclei and nucleons have a similar conceptual basis. This leads to the present picture of all matter being built out of a small number of elementary building blocks and a small number of fundamental interactions. The second part then goes on to show how these elementary particles may be combined to build hadrons and nuclei. This introductory textbook is based on lectures held at the University of Heidelberg and, with its numerous exercises with worked answers, is ideally suited for undergraduate courses.

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This introductory textbook gives a unified presentation of nuclear and particle physics from an experimental point of view. The first part of the book, Analysis, is devoted to disentangling the substructure of matter. This part shows that experiments designed to uncover the substructures of nuclei and nucleons have a similar conceptual basis, and lead to the present picture of all matter being built out of a small number of elementary building blocks and a small number of fundamental interactions.
The second part, Synthesis, shows how the elementary particles may be combined to build hadrons and nuclei. The fundamental interactions which are responsible for the forces in all systems become less and less evident in increasing complex syystems. Such systems are in fact dominated by many-body phenomena.
This concise text is based on lectures held at the University of Heidelberg and is well suited for undergraduate courses. It includes numerous exercises with worked answers.

Synopsis

This text is based on lectures held at the University of Heidelberg and provides a presentation of nuclear and particle physics. The first part is devoted to disentangling the substructure of matter. It shows that experiments are designed to uncover the substructures of nuclei and nucleons have a similar conceptual basis, and lead to the picture of all matter being built out of a small number of elementary building blocks and a small number of interactions. The second part shows how the elementary particles may be combined to build hadrons and nuclei. The fundamental interactions which are responsible for the forces in all systems become less and less evident in increasingly complex systems. Such systems are in fact dominated by many-body phenomena. The text includes 39 problems and worked solutions.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 3540594396
• ISBN 13: 9783540594390
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 349