"Version: 20161201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Addendum for the third edition -- Introduction -- Preface -- 1. Matter in the early 20th century -- 1.1. Parts of the atom -- 1.2. Radiation -- 1.3. Some conservation laws -- 1.4. Neutrinos2. Forces and interactions -- 2.1. Fundamental forc…
"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: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Introduction. 1. Basic concepts -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Terminology and definitions -- 1.3. Units and dimensions -- 1.4. Sources of information2. Subatomic particles and their interactions -- 2.1. Classification of subatomic particles -- 2.2. Classification and ranges of interactions -- 2.3. Conservation laws…
"Version: 20251001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Vectors -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Definition of vectors -- 1.3. Representation of vectors -- 1.4. Types of vectors -- 1.5. Multiplication of a vector by a scalar -- 1.6. Addition of vectors -- 1.7. Subtraction of vectors -- 1.8. Scalar product of two vectors -- 1.9. Vector product of two vectors -- 1.10. Some fundam…
"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 …
"Version: 20181201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. The Standard Model of Particle Physics -- 1. Historical overview of particle physics -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Photons -- 1.3. Electrons -- 1.4. Protons -- 1.5. Neutrons -- 1.6. Neutrinos -- 1.7. Positrons -- 1.8. Muons -- 1.9. P…
"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…