"Version: 20210207"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. What we probably know. 1. The Standard Models--overview and perspective -- 1.1. The large number of solutions to string/M-theory is not an obstacle to finding a theory that describes nature -- 1.2. String theorists study theories, not phenomena -- 1.3. Nutcracker -- 1.4. Why the Standard Model is true--it will be …
"Version: 20200901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Discrete symmetries -- 3. Antiparticles and CP symmetry -- 3.1. Elementary particles -- 3.2. Dirac equation and antiparticles -- 3.3. Left- and right-handed particles -- 3.4. CP transformation of Dirac spinors4. CP violation in the quark sector -- 4.1. Lagrangian of weak interaction -- 4.2. Flavor mi…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Rays, matrices, and transfer maps -- 1.1. Paraxial approximation -- 1.2. Thin lenses -- 1.3. Thick lenses -- 1.4. Transfer maps -- 1.5. Computer resources2. Linear magnetic lenses and deflectors -- 2.1. Magnetic rigidity, momentum, and cyclotron frequency -- 2.2. Solenoid focusing -- 2.3. Quadrupole focusing -- 2.4. Th…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Basics of elementary particle physics2. Jet algorithms -- 2.1. Cone or sequential algorithms? -- 2.2. Common issues with jet algorithms -- 2.3. Further jet clustering procedures3. QCD for jet physics -- 3.1. Fixed-order QCD calculations -- 3.2. QCD at all orders -- 3.3. At the boundary of perturbat…
"Version: 20231001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Appendix A. Physics scaling of particle ring accelerators -- Appendix B. Computer codes.1. Space charge and other physics at the University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER) -- 1.1. UMER lattice and injection -- 1.2. Emittance, space charge and betatron tune shifts -- 1.3. Closed orbit -- 1.4. Betatron resonances and space…
"Version: 20200801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction to the physical models for plasmas -- 2. Elements of plasma kinetic theory -- 2.1. The Boltzmann equation -- 2.2. Relaxation model for molecular collisions -- 2.3. The Boltzmann collision integral -- 2.4. Commentaries and further reading3. Hydrodynamic description of plasmas -- 3.1. The moments of Boltzman…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Kinetic theory. 1. Boltzmann and Vlasov equations in plasma physics / Gianpiero Colonna -- 2. Two-term Boltzmann equation / Gianpiero Colonna and Antonio D'Angola -- 3. Multiterm and non-local electron Boltzmann equation / Detlef Loffhagen -- 4. Particle-based simulation of plasmas / Giovanni Lapenta -- 5. The erg…
"Version: 20200901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Introduction. 1. Principle of the fluid description of magnetically confined plasmas -- 1.1. Framework of conventional fluid theory -- 1.2. Fluid description of magnetically confined plasmaspart II. Fluid theory in the collision-dominant regime. 2. Braginskii two-fluid theory -- 2.1. Transport equations -- 2.2. Es…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part IV. Concluding remarks. 11. The beauty and simplicity in controlled fusion research -- Appendix A. Table of integrals and vector formula -- Appendix B. Supplementary derivation of drift kinetic equation -- Appendix C. Acronym list.part I. Introduction. 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Background for controlled thermonuclear f…
"Version: 202111"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Prelude to volume two -- 1.1. Plasma, magnetised, parameters -- 1.2. Low frequency, flute mode ordering -- 1.3. Drifts, ExB flow, currents -- 1.4. Polarisation and quasineutrality -- 1.5. Turbulence -- 1.6. Turbulence in magnetised plasmas -- 1.7. Kinetic theory, turbulence, and MHD instabilities2. Effects of the electro…