"Version: 20251101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The origins of plate diagram theory -- 1.1. Joseph Petzval (1807-1891) -- 1.2. Lancelot Hugh Aldis (1870-1945) -- 1.3. Cecil Reginald Burch (1901-1983) -- 1.4. To the present day2. The plate diagram for a single surface -- 2.1. First-, third-, and high-order -- 2.2. Useful first-order optics -- 2.3. The Schmidt telesco…
"Version: 20200401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. A historical, mathematical and optical introduction. 1. A brief history of stigmatic lens design -- 1.1. The rise of geometrical optics -- 1.2. Optics of the ancient Greeks and Arab world -- 1.3. Snell, Descartes, Huygens, Newton and Fermat -- 1.4. 19th and 20th century -- 1.5. The computer era and the closure of …
"Version: 20251201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Optical physics for laser materials processing -- 1.1. Electromagnetic theory of light propagation -- 1.2. Paraxial approximation -- 1.3. The eikonal equation--material polarization approach -- 1.4. The eikonal equation--Fermat's principle approach -- 1.5. Propagation of electromagnetic waves through matter. Lorentz os…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction / Bruno Lovaglio Can?cado Trindade and Davies William de Lima Monteiro -- 2. The human eye and refractive correction / Bruno Lovaglio Can?cado Trindade, Glauber Coutinho Eliazar and Davies William de Lima Monteiro -- 3. Optical parameters and charts / Bruno Lovaglio Can?cado Trindade, Davies William de Lim…
"Version: 20230201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction / Andy Wood -- 2. Hybrid surface fundamentals / Andy Wood -- 3. Hybrid surface ray tracing / Andy Wood -- 4. Paraxial properties and primary aberrations / Andy Wood -- 5. Chromatic aberration and thermal defocus / Andy Wood -- 6. The Sweatt model / Andy Wood -- 7. Blaze design / Andy Wood -- 8. Modelling d…
"Version: 20180701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 24-26).Introduction -- The Standard Model and quantum chromodynamics -- Hadrons and the quark model -- Different types of hadrons -- Background -- Understanding hadrons through their quantum numbers -- Discovery of the J/[psi] meson -- Resonances, Breit-Wigner lineshape and phase changes -- Controversy over claimed…
"Version: 20171001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 19-20)1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Current directions -- 4. Outlook.Following the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, particle physics has entered its most exciting and crucial period for over 50 years. In this book, I first summarise our current understanding of particle physics, and why this knowledge…
"Version: 20180701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (page 17).Introduction -- Background -- Hunting new physics at the LHC -- Hunting the Higgs -- Current directions -- Finding super-symmetry -- Generalising searches -- Tales of the unexpected -- Outlook.With the discovery of the Higgs boson our picture of the subatomic world--the Standard Model--is complete. But looking a…
"Version: 20190801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Groundwork -- 1.1. Natural units -- 1.2. Particle content -- 1.3. Relativistic kinematics2. Collisions -- 2.1. Effecting collisions -- 2.2. Measure of collisions -- 2.3. Coordinates -- 2.4. Types of collisions3. Analysis objects -- 3.1. Detector objects -- 3.2. Jets and making them -- 3.3. Trigger -- 3.4. Preparing the…
"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…