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Gauge Theories in Particle Physics, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Practical Introduction, Volume 1: From Relativistic Quantum Mechanics to QED, Fifth Edition by Ian J R Aitchison 9781032531748
RRP: £54.99£47.72The fifth edition of this well-established, highly regarded two-volume set continues to provide a fundamental introduction to advanced particle physics while incorporating substantial new experimental results, especially in the areas of Higgs and top... -
300 Problems in Special and General Relativity: With Complete Solutions by Mattias Blennow 9781316510674
RRP: £69.99£61.79Einstein's theories of special relativity and general relativity form a core part of today's undergraduate (or Masters-level) physics curriculum. This is a supplementary problem book or student's manual, consisting of 150 problems in each of special and... -
Philosophy of Particle Physics by Porter Williams 9781009205399
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Element offers an introduction to selected philosophical issues that arise in contemporary particle physics, aimed at philosophers who have limited prior exposure to quantum field theory. One the one hand, it critically surveys philosophical work on... -
Elements of Modern X-ray Physics by Jens Als-Nielsen
RRP: £50.95£44.71Eagerly awaited, this second edition of a best-selling text comprehensively describes from a modern perspective the basics of x-ray physics as well as the completely new opportunities offered by synchrotron radiation. Written by internationally acclaimed... -
Big Science, Innovation, and Societal Contributions: The Organisations and Collaborations in Big Science Experiments by Shantha Liyanage 9780198881193
RRP: £35.00£32.03Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Quantum Field Theory: A Diagrammatic Approach by Ronald Kleiss
RRP: £59.99£54.75Quantum field theory (QFT), the language of particle physics, is crucial to a physicist's graduate education. Based on lecture notes for courses taught for many years at Radboud University in the Netherlands, this book presents an alternative approach to... -
Phenomenology of Particle Physics by Andre Rubbia
RRP: £74.99£68.29Written for a two-semester Master's or graduate course, this comprehensive treatise intertwines theory and experiment in an original approach that covers all aspects of modern particle physics. The author uses rigorous step-by-step derivations and... -
Particle Mechanics by Chris Collinson 9780340610466
RRP: £28.99£26.48* Assumes no prior knowledge * Adopts a modelling approach * Numerous tutorial problems, worked examples and exercises included * Elementary topics augmented by planetary motion and rotating frames This text provides an invaluable introduction to... -
Constructing Quarks: Sociological History of Particle Physics by Andrew Pickering
RRP: £37.00£36.17Recounts the history of the post-war conceptual development of elementary-particle physics. Inviting a reappraisal of the status of scientific knowledge, the text suggests that scientists are not mere passive observers and reporters of nature. Rather... -
Festschrift In Honor Of The C N Yang Centenary, A: Scientific Papers by Fong-ching Chen
RRP: £90.00£78.81C N Yang is a towering figure of science who has significantly extended human understanding of nature, headed one of the foremost research institutes in physics for three decades, and made great contributions to the advances of Chinese physics. This... -
Who Cares about Particle Physics?: Making Sense of the Higgs Boson, the Large Hadron Collider and CERN by Pauline Gagnon
RRP: £36.49£36.44CERN, the European Laboratory for particle physics, regularly makes the news. What kind of research happens at this international laboratory and how does it impact people's daily lives? Why is the discovery of the Higgs boson so important? Particle... -
Particles, Sources, And Fields, Volume 1 Julian Schwinger 9780738200538
RRP: £68.99£59.52This classic, the first of three volumes, presents techniques that emphasize the unity of high-energy particle physics with electrodynamics, gravitational theory, and many-particle cooperative phenomena. What emerges is a theory intermediate in position... -
Cosmic Strings and Other Topological Defects by Alex Vilenkin 9780521654760
RRP: £39.99£36.59Now in paperback, this book is the first comprehensive and coherent introduction to the role of cosmic strings and other topological defects in the universe. This study has been one of the major driving forces in cosmology over the last decade, and lies... -
The Wizard of Quarks: A Fantasy of Particle Physics by Robert Gilmore 9780387950716
RRP: £34.99£27.51Thousands of readers who were delighted by the adventures and science content of Alice in Quantumland are in for another treat. This time physicist Robert Gilmore takes us on a journey with Dorothy, following the yellow building block road through the... -
QCD and Collider Physics by R. K. Ellis 9780521545891
RRP: £61.99£55.91One of the triumphs of modern particle physics has been the extent to which Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) has successfully accounted for the strong interaction processes observed at high-energy particle colliders, for example the production of heavy... -
Particles, Sources, And Fields, Volume 2 Julian Schwinger 9780738200545
RRP: £58.99£51.08This classic book (volume two of three volumes) is almost exclusively concerned with quantum electrodynamics. As such, it is retrospective in its subject matter. The topics discussed range from anomalous magnetic moments and vacuum polarization, in a... -
Fundamentals of Particle Physics: Understanding the Standard Model by Pascal Paganini 9781009171588
RRP: £54.99£47.68This text is a modern introduction to the Standard Model of particle physics for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students. Assuming only prior knowledge of special relativity and non-relativistic quantum mechanics, it presents all aspects of... -
Alpha Sequence, The by Malcolm H Mac Gregor 9789811252327
RRP: £65.00£56.57This book is centered on a surprising Tevatron and LHC experimental result, the accurate equality of gauge boson and top quark energy Ew + Ez = Et. The ramifications of this unanticipated result extend down to the lower energies, and lead to two new... -
Skyrmions - A Theory Of Nuclei by Nicholas S Manton
RRP: £100.00£87.82Skyrmions - A Theory of Nuclei surveys 60 years of research into the brilliant and imaginative idea of Tony Skyrme that atomic nuclei can be modelled as Skyrmions, topologically stable states in an effective quantum field theory of pions. Skyrme theory... -
Hadrons at Finite Temperature by Samirnath Mallik
RRP: £125.00£100.11High energy laboratories are performing experiments in heavy ion collisions to explore the structure of matter at high temperature and density. This elementary book explains the basic ideas involved in the theoretical analysis of these experimental data... -
Dance of the Photons by Anton Zeilinger 9780374611781
RRP: £15.99£12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374611781Author Anton ZeilingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams) 472g -
Gauge Symmetries, Symmetry Breaking, and Gauge-Invariant Approaches by Philipp Berghofer 9781009197229
RRP: £17.00£14.72Gauge symmetries play a central role, both in the mathematical foundations as well as the conceptual construction of modern (particle) physics theories. However, it is yet unclear whether they form a necessary component of theories, or whether they can... -
Gauge Theories in Particle Physics, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Practical Introduction, Volume 2: Non-Abelian Gauge Theories: QCD and The Electroweak Theory, Fifth Edition by Ian J R Aitchison 9781032533612
RRP: £54.99£47.72The fifth edition of this well-established, highly regarded two-volume set continues to provide a fundamental introduction to advanced particle physics while incorporating substantial new experimental results, especially in the areas of Higgs and top... -
Small Particle Ring Accelerators and Paul Traps: Case studies and prospects by Santiago Bernal 9780750348898
RRP: £120.00£114.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750348898Author Santiago BernalFormat HardbackPage Count 102Imprint Institute of Physics PublishingPublisher Institute of Physics Publishing -
Particles, Fields And Topology: Celebrating A. P. Balachandran by T R Govindarajan 9789811270420
RRP: £110.00£95.26A P Balachandran has a long and impressive record of research in particle physics and quantum field theory, bringing concepts of geometry, topology and operator algebras to the analysis of physical problems, particularly in particle physics and condensed... -
Handbook Of Accelerator Physics And Engineering (Third Edition) by Alexander Wu Chao 9789811270154
RRP: £90.00£78.18Edited by internationally recognized authorities in the field, this expanded and updated new edition of the bestselling Handbook, containing more than 100 new articles, is aimed at the design and operation of modern particle accelerators. It is intended... -
Cosmic Ray Muography by Paola Scampoli 9789811264900
RRP: £100.00£86.72Muography is a term recently introduced to embrace different techniques that profit from the penetration capability of the muon component of cosmic rays to investigate the interior of large and otherwise inaccessible structures. Primary cosmic rays —... -
Frank Wilczek: 50 Years Of Theoretical Physics by Antti Niemi 9789811255175
RRP: £65.00£56.57Frank Wilczek is one of the foremost theoretical physicists of the past half-century. He has made several fundamental contributions that shape our understanding of high energy physics, cosmology, condensed matter physics, and statistical physics. In all... -
Peter Suranyi 87th Birthday Festschrift: A Life In Quantum Field Theory by Philip C Argyres
RRP: £120.00£103.80This is a Festschrift compiled in honor of Professor Peter Suranyi, Professor Emeritus, University of Cincinnati. In a long career spanning almost 60 years, Professor Suranyi has made valuable contributions in many areas of theoretical physics,... -
State Of The Quantum Vacuum, The: Casimir Physics In The 2020's by Kimball A Milton
RRP: £125.00£108.07This review volume is intended to survey the field of quantum fluctuational phenomena induced by material bodies, which is commonly encompassed under the name of Casimir physics. H B G Casimir first discovered that zero-point fluctuations in the... -
Everything Is Living Energy by Albert Simpson
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398407879Author Albert SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 156g -
Relativistic Quantum Mechanics And Related Topics by Eduardo Guendelman
RRP: £80.00£70.20This book describes Relativistic Quantum Mechanics, starting from the free field equations for spin-zero particles and for spin-one-half particles, leading to the Klein-Gordon equation and Dirac equations. Interactions of these particles with the... -
New Physics In B Decays by Sheldon Stone
RRP: £80.00£69.64The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics has withstood thus far every attempt by experimentalists to show that it does not describe data. We discuss the SM in some detail, focusing on the mechanism of fermion mixing, which represents one of its most... -
Memorial Volume For Jack Steinberger: With Selected Papers And A Commentary By W-d Schlatter by Julia Steinberger
RRP: £80.00£69.64This book is a tribute to Jack Steinberger (1921-2020) whose contributions play an important role in the development of particle physics. Together with Leon M Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, he was awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery... -
Introduction To High Energy Physics: Problems And Solutions by Lee G Pondrom
RRP: £80.00£69.64Elementary particle physics is a mature subject, with a wide variety of topics. Each topic in the textbook was selected for its accessibility to as wide an audience of interested readers as possible, without any compromise in mathematical sophistication... -
Foundation Of The Hyperunified Field Theory by Yue-liang Wu
RRP: £135.00£117.56The quest for the unification of fundamental interactions has become the most challenging frontier of sciences in the 21st century. This book presents a detailed analysis and systematic investigation on the foundation of the hyperunified field theory... -
Superinsulators, Bose Metals And High-tc Superconductors: The Quantum Physics Of Emergent Magnetic Monopoles by Carlo A Trugenberger
RRP: £80.00£69.64In 1931 Dirac showed that topologically quantized single magnetic charges, magnetic monopoles, while classically forbidden in a gauge theory, are allowed alongside electric charges in a quantum theory of electromagnetism. Such topological magnetic... -
Introduction To High Energy Physics: Particle Physics For The Beginner - Problems And Solutions Lee G Pondrom (Univ Of Wisconsin-madison, Usa) 9789811270321
RRP: £45.00£39.49Elementary particle physics is a mature subject, with a wide variety of topics. Each topic in the textbook was selected for its accessibility to as wide an audience of interested readers as possible, without any compromise in mathematical sophistication... -
Introduction To Quantum Field Theory And The Standard Model Wolfgang Hollik (Max Plank Inst For Physics, Germany) 9789811242175
RRP: £80.00£69.64Based on the lectures given at TU Munich for third-year physics students, this book provides the basic concepts of relativistic quantum field theory, perturbation theory, Feynman graphs, Abelian and non-Abelian gauge theories, with application to QED,... -
Renormalized Perturbation Theory And Its Optimization By The Principle Of Minimal Sensitivity by P M Stevenson
RRP: £90.00£78.18The results of renormalized perturbation theory, in QCD and other quantum field theories, are ambiguous at any finite order, due to renormalization-scheme dependence. The perturbative results depend upon extraneous scheme variables, including the...