This volume is an exercises and solutions manual that complements the book "Particles and Fundamental Interactions" by Sylvie Braibant, Giorgio Giacomelli, and Maurizio Spurio. It aims to give additional intellectual stimulation for students in experimental particle physics. It will be a helpful companion in the preparation of a written examination, but also it provides a means to gaining a deeper understanding of high energy physics. The problems proposed are sometimes true and important research questions, which are described and solved in a step-by-step manner. In addition to the problems and solutions, this book offers fifteen Supplements that give further insight into topical subjects related to particle accelerators, signal and data acquisition systems and computational methods to treat them.
With almost 200 exercises to wrangle with, this volume is based on the celebrated lectures of Giorgio Giacomelli, a central figure in particle physics over the last 40 years. As an self-study manual, it accompanies the text book Giacomelli has co-written.
Recenzijas
From the reviews:
This book is intended mainly to undergraduate students in experimental and theoretical physics but is also suitable for physics teachers that can find here an extensive collection of exercises (or can be inspired by them). It can be also very useful to all the people that want to approach the subject of modern particle physics and are looking for a good training. (Philosophy, Religion and Science Book Reviews, bookinspections.wordpress.com, September, 2013)
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1 Historical Notes and Fundamental Concepts |
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Supplement 1.1 Cosmic Rays and Astroparticle Physics |
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2 Particle Interactions with Matter and Detectors |
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Supplement 2.1 Multiple Scattering at Small Angles |
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Supplement 2.2 Muon Energy Loss at High Energies |
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3 Particle Accelerators and Particle Detection |
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Supplement 3.1 Synchrotron Radiation |
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4 The Paradigm of Interactions: The Electromagnetic Case |
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Supplement 4.1 Radiocarbon Dating |
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5 First Discussion of the Other Fundamental Interactions |
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Supplement 5.1 Baryon Number Conservation: the Search for Proton Decay |
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6 Invariance and Conservation Principles |
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7 Interactions of Hadrons at Low Energies and the Static Quark Model |
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Supplement 7.1 Sum of Angular Momentum and Isospin: the Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients |
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8 Weak Interactions and Neutrinos |
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Supplement 8.1 Signals, Data Transmission and Electronics |
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9 Discoveries in Electron-Positron Collisions |
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Supplement 9.1 Electronic Logic and Trigger |
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10 High Energy Interactions and the Dynamic Quark Model |
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Supplement 10.1 The Computing Effort at the LHC Collider |
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11 The Standard Model of the Microcosm |
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12 CP-Violation and Particle Oscillations |
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Supplement 12.1 Analogy for the Neutrino Mixing |
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Supplement 12.2 Dirac or Majorana Neutrinos: the Double β Decay |
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13 Microcosm and Macrocosm |
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Supplement 13.1 Cosmic Accelerators |
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14 Fundamental Aspects of Nucleon Interactions |
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Supplement 14.1 Nuclear Collisions of Cosmic Rays During Propagation in the Galaxy |
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Supplement 14.2 Quantum Mechanics and Nuclear Physics → White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars |
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| References |
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Giorgio M. Giacomelli became full professor of Physics in 1971. He is (co)author of more than 650 publications in scientific journals and over 350 reports and conference proceedings. He supervised 115 Laurea Theses, 30 PhD Theses. He received prizes from the Italian Physical Society, the University of Bologna and from the A. Della Riccia Foundation. He is Marchigiano of the year 2006. In 1981 the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) listed him in the 1000 Contemporary Scientists Most-Cited in 1969-78". He is presently in the Highly Cited list of ISI. He was Director of the Institute of Physics, of the Department of Physics (1975-88) and President of the Laurea in Physics Committee of the University of Bologna. He was a member of many national and international scientific committees (SPSC, LEPC and ECFA at CERN, HEP at Fermilab, of INFN, of the ENI foundation, of CTS of ENEA, bioethics of CNR, of the Galvani Committee). Presently he is Emeritus Professor atthe University of Bologna, collaborator of INFN and CERN, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Socio Benemerito of the Italian Physical Society, member of the European Physical Society, of the Accademia delle Scienze di Bologna, of the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Accademia Teatina. He is one of the Editors of the Journal Astroparticle Physics.
