"Version: 20201101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Theory and context. 1. Nuclear structure and radioactive decay -- 1.1. Introduction to basic atomic and nuclear structure -- 1.2. Radioactive decay -- 1.3. Alpha decay -- 1.4. Beta decay -- 1.5. Fission -- 1.6. Excited states -- 1.7. Transitions between nuclear excited states : electromagnetic decay modes2. Intera…
"Version: 20200401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Representation of rotations, angular momentum and spin -- 1.1. Rotations in (3, R) -- 1.2. Matrix representations of spin and angular momentum operators -- 1.3. The Pauli spin matrices -- 1.4. Matrix representations of rotations in ket space -- 1.5. Tensor representations for SU(2) -- 1.6. Tensor representations for SO…
"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. A theory of polarized photons -- 1.1. Polarized lightwaves -- 1.2. Polarized photons -- 1.3. Uncertainty in experiments -- 1.4. Dirac bracket notation -- 1.5. Transformation properties of polarizing filter measurements -- 1.6. Multiples of kets -- 1.7. Exercises2. A theory of the Stern-Gerlach experiment for spin-1-2 p…
"Version: 20190901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Preliminary concepts. 1. The overall picture -- 1.1. The atomistic structure of matter -- 1.2. The quantum nature of physical laws -- 1.3. The dual nature of physical phenomena2. Essential quantum mechanics -- 2.1. The wavefunction -- 2.2. Quantum operators -- 2.3. Time evolution -- 2.4. Systems of identical parti…
"Version: 202108"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Gross properties of nuclei -- 1.1. Exercises2. Nuclear excitation patterns -- 2.1. Basic features of excited states in even-even nuclei -- 2.2. A basic symmetry of nuclei : isospin -- 2.3. Nuclear data compilations and evaluations -- 2.4. Exercises3. Nuclear deformation and rotations -- 3.1. The rotor model for nuclei : …
"Version: 20220601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.0. Using the book -- 0.1. The 'user' -- 0.2. The 'researcher' -- 0.3. The 'developer' -- 0.4. The 'expert'part I. Introduction and background knowledge. 1. Imaging particulate and multiphase systems -- 1.1. Particulate and multiphase systems : why do they matter? -- 1.2. The importance of imaging -- 1.3. Particle and flow…
"Version: 20230801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Statement of the problem -- 1.2. A brief review of electromagnetic theory -- 1.3. Laser pulses -- 1.4. The motion of a charged particle in an electromagnetic field -- 1.5. Gauge transformations -- 1.6. The dinuclear system in a laser field -- 1.7. Characterization of laser-nucleus interaction in an…
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.8. Data analysis basics -- 8.1. Data-taking -- 8.2. Object definition and selection -- 8.3. Event selection -- 8.4. Observables -- 8.5. Performance optimisation -- 8.6. Estimating backgrounds and uncertainties9. Resonance searches -- 9.1. Types of resonance -- 9.2. Anatomy of a diphoton resonance search -- 9.3. Jet resonanc…
"Version: 20221001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction to quantum field theory -- 1.1. Natural units -- 1.2. The simple harmonic oscillator in classical mechanics -- 1.3. The harmonic oscillator in quantum mechanics -- 1.4. Photons -- 1.5. Paths to quantum field theory2. Quantum mechanics and path integrals -- 2.1. Classical mechanics and fields -- 2…
"Version: 20140901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Equation of state for QGP and hadronic resonance gas -- Introduction -- Equation of state for QGP with vanishing quark mass -- Hadronic resonance gas -- The van der Waals equation of state -- HRG in the excluded volume method -- The statistical bootstrap model -- Extended HRGModeling relativistic heavy ion collisions -- I…