"Version: 20250101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Supplementary reading -- 1.2. Aims and philosophy -- 1.3. Prerequisites -- 1.4. Conventions and notation2. Symmetries (discrete and continuous) -- 2.1. Beta decay -- 2.2. Parity violation in weak interactions -- 2.3. Parity violation in [beta]-decay -- 2.4. V-A formulation of the weak currents -- 2…
"Version: 20240801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. The Larmor formula and a classical description of Thomson scattering -- 1.2. Elements of special relativity : inertial frames and Lorentz transformations -- 1.3. Relativistic kinematics and dynamics -- 1.4. The relativistic kinematics of Compton scattering -- 1.5. The kinematics of inverse Compton …
"Version: 20241101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. An introduction to high-intensity lasers and nonlinear quantum electrodynamics -- 1.1. Evolution of laser technology and the associated intensities -- 1.2. Going deeper into the fundamental role of the laser strength parameter -- 1.3. The phenomenology of the interaction between electrons/matter and a high-intensity la…
"Version: 20240701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Brief history of the debate -- 1.1. The modern emergentists -- 1.2. Einstein, Pauli, and Schr?odinger -- 1.3. The return of emergence -- 1.4. Questioning the hierarchy -- 1.5. Weinberg and the response to P W Anderson -- 1.6. Universality and independence -- 1.7. Wheeler and the foundations of physics -- 1.8. Reductive…
"Version: 20181001"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Rays, matrices, and transfer maps -- 1.1. Paraxial approximation -- 1.2. Thin lens -- 1.3. Thick lens -- 1.4. Transfer maps -- 1.5. Computer resources2. Linear magnetic lenses and deflectors -- 2.1. Magnetic rigidity, momentum, and cyclo…
"Version: 20181101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Inelastic neutron scattering -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Neutron scattering basics -- 2.3. Some practical considerations -- 2.4. Instruments for INS -- 2.5. Neutron scattering at large user facilities -- 2.6. Exercise…
"Version: 20180801"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Why dark matter? -- 1.2. Evidence for dark matter2. Particle dark matter candidates : constraints from observations -- 2.1. Dark matter particle candidates -- 2.2. Dark matter searches -- 2.3. Constraints on dark mat…
"Version: 20190601"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Brief history of the debate -- 1.1. The modern emergentists -- 1.2. Einstein, Pauli, and Schr?odinger -- 1.3. The return of emergence -- 1.4. Questioning the hierarchy -- 1.5. Weinberg and the response to P.W. Anderson -- 1.6. Universali…
"Version: 20190401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Into the B world -- 1.1. Heavy particles -- 1.2. Weak liaison -- 1.3. Frontiers2. Into the mirror -- 2.1. C and P -- 2.2. Strange particles -- 2.3. Humans, not antihumans3. Down the rabbit hole -- 3.1. Accelerating science -- 3.2. Quantu…
"Version: 20181101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Completion of the Standard Model -- 1.2. New Physics: phenomena beyond the Standard Model -- 1.3. Three frontiers in experimental particle physics -- 1.4. Advantages of e+e- colliders2. International Linear Collider …