"Version: 20160201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. The basics of elementary particle physics2. Jet algorithms -- 2.1. Cone or sequential algorithms? -- 2.2. Novel jet clustering procedures3. QCD for jet physics -- 3.1. Collinear splitting in QCD -- 3.2. Fi…
"Version: 20151201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. From the night sky to universal building bocks -- 1.2. Tumbling down the rabbit hole -- 1.3. The need for a new object2. Early Higgs searches -- 2.1. A note on units -- 2.2. From the postulation to the fir…
"Version: 20140901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Author biography -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A simple model of nonlinear dielectrics3. Basic properties of photonic crystals -- 3.1. Plane wave method -- 3.2. Wannier function method -- 3.3. Computer simulation me…
"Version: 20151001"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Author biography -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Overview -- 1.2. Basic principles2. Practical requirements -- 2.1. Ion generation -- 2.2. Primary and sputter ion beam sources -- 2.3. Mass analysis -- 2.4. Ion detection -- 2.5. Ultra …
"Version: 20251101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Light, interference, and diffraction -- 1.3. From static to dynamic diffraction -- 1.4. Frequency analysis of motion -- 1.5. Beyond linear oscillations : chaos and complexity -- 1.6. Why dynamic optical diffraction matters -- 1.7. Summary2. Optical interference -- 2.1. Introduc…
"Version: 20240401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Some rules for sum rules -- 2.1. Causality and analyticity -- 2.2. Derivation of dispersion relations -- 2.3. Crossing symmetry -- 2.4. Unitarity -- 2.5. Low-energy theorems and sum rules -- 2.6. Relaxing the convergence condition -- 2.7. Divergencies, subtractions, and renormalization -- 2.8. An app…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Waves -- 1.1. Wave concepts -- 1.2. Energy transport -- 1.3. Complex notation -- 1.4. Fourier analysis -- 1.5. Diffraction -- 1.6. Foundations of scattering2. Introduction to scattering and absorption -- 2.1. The total cross section -- 2.2. Angles and solid angles -- 2.3. The differential scattering cross section -- 2.…
"Version: 20201101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction : from death rays to smartphones -- 2. Optical propagation -- 2.1. Electromagnetic fields -- 2.2. Helmholtz equation and wave optics -- 2.3. Looking forward3. Gaussian beams and lasers -- 3.1. Lasers -- 3.2. Gaussian beams -- 3.3. Coherent and squeezed states -- 3.4. Optical tweezers4. Orbital angular mome…
"Version: 20200701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Charge-exchange-caused dips in spectral lines emitted by laser-produced plasmas -- 2.1. Overview of the theory of the charge-exchange-caused dips in profiles of hydrogenic spectral lines -- 2.2. Discovery of the charge-exchange-caused dips in experimental spectral line profiles from laser-produced pl…
"Version: 20200901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The Maxwell equations -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Lorentz force -- 1.3. Electric flux -- 1.4. The Gauss law -- 1.5. The Gauss law for magnetism -- 1.6. Faraday's law -- 1.7. Amp?ere's law -- 1.8. The wave equation -- 1.9. The speed and propagation of light -- 1.10. Refraction index -- 1.11. Electromagnetic waves -- 1.…