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100 Years of Subatomic Physics.
Title:
100 Years of Subatomic Physics.
Author:
Henley, Ernest M.
ISBN:
9789814425810
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1 online resource (559 pages)
Contents:
Preface -- I: Nuclear Physics -- 1. Particle Physics, From Rutherford to the LHC S. Weinberg -- Theoretical and Experimental Barriers -- Obstacles to a Comprehensive Field Theory -- The Standard Model -- Not the Last Word -- 2. The Early Years and Beyond E. M. Henley and A. Garcia -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Radioactivity -- 2.1. Alpha decays and the strong force -- 2.2. Gamma decays and the electromagnetic interaction -- 2.3. Beta decays and the weak interaction -- 2.4. Neutrons and fission -- 3. Nuclear Forces -- 3.1. Charge independence -- 4. Nuclear Reactions -- 4.1. Compound-nucleus and direct reactions -- 4.2. Optical potential -- 4.3. Resonances -- 5. Early Nuclear Structure Models -- 5.1. The liquid drop model -- 5.2. The shell model -- 5.3. Collective models -- 6. Outlook -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 3. 100 Years of Nuclear Mass Measurements and Models G. T. Garvey -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Bit of History -- 3. Present Day Experimental Research in Nuclear Masses -- 4. Calculation of Nuclear Masses -- 5. Extended Liquid Drop Models -- 6. Microscopic Approaches -- 7. Local Mass Relations -- References -- 4. Symmetries and Dynamical Symmetries in Nuclei I. Talmi -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Shell Model -- 3. Effective Interactions. General Features -- 4. Symmetries and Lie Groups -- 5. Identical Nucleons in jn Configurations. Seniority -- 6. Some Applications of Seniority to Nuclei -- 7. An Alternative Formulation of the Seniority Scheme -- 8. Generalized Seniority -- 9. Generalized Seniority States of Semi-Magic Nuclei -- 10. Seniority with Isospin. Symmetry Energy -- 11. Strong Effects of the Proton-Neutron Interaction in Nuclei -- 12. Non jj-Coupling Models: Wigner's SU(4) Symmetry -- 13. Non jj-Coupling Models: Elliott's SU(3) Symmetry -- 14. The Interacting Boson Model (IBM-1) -- 15. Dynamical Symmetry Limits of IBM-1.

16. Shell Model and the Proton-Neutron Interacting Boson Model (IBM-2) -- References -- 5. Nuclear Fission R. Vogt and J. Randrup -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Discovery of fission -- 1.2. Basic features of fission -- 2. Experimental Observables -- 2.1. Pre-fission neutron emission -- 2.1.1. Multichance fission -- 2.1.2. Pre-equilibrium neutron emission -- 2.2. Fragment observables -- 2.2.1. Fission fragment yields -- 2.2.2. Fragment kinetic energies -- 2.3. Neutron observables -- 2.3.1. Multiplicity as a function of fragment mass -- 2.3.2. Neutron multiplicity distribution -- 2.3.1. Multiplicity as a function of fragment mass -- 2.3.2. Neutron multiplicity distribution -- 2.3.3. Energy dependence of neutron multiplicity -- 2.4. Prompt fission neutron spectra -- 2.5. Photon observables -- 3. Modeling of Fission -- 3.1. Fission dynamics -- 3.1.1. Formal framework -- 3.1.2. Potential -- 3.1.3. Inertia -- 3.1.4. Dissipation -- 3.1.5. Langevin simulations -- 3.1.6. Brownian shape dynamics -- 3.1.7. Microscopic fission dynamics -- 3.2. Modern modeling of fission observables -- 3.2.1. Traditional models -- 3.2.2. Monte Carlo based methods -- 3.2.3. Fragment properties -- 3.2.4. Fragment de-excitation -- 3.2.5. Fragment temperature distributions -- 3.3. Model results -- 4. New Experiments -- 4.1. New fission modes -- 4.2. New data for applications -- 4.2.1. Fission fragments -- 4.2.2. Neutron spectra -- 4.2.3. Fission yields -- 4.2.4. Photon measurements -- 5. Concluding Remarks -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 6. Parity- and Time-Reversal Tests in Nuclear Physics D. Hertzog and M. J. Ramsey-Musolf -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Parity-Violation in Charged Current Interactions -- 3. Parity-Violation in Neutral Current Interactions -- 4. Time-Reversal Tests -- 5. Outlook -- Acknowledgments -- References.

7. High Energy Nuclear Physics: From Bear Mountain to the LHC L. McLerran -- 1. Origins of the Study of Ultra-Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions -- 2. Early Work on the Phase Diagram of QCD -- 3. Space-Time Picture of Heavy Ion Collisions -- 4. The Color Glass Condensate and Glasma -- 5. Early Days of Heavy Ion Collisions: The Bevalac, AGS and SPS -- 6. The RHIC Program -- 6.1. Jet quenching, ow and momentum space distributions and the strongly interacting Quark Gluon Plasma -- 6.2. Hints of the CGC and glasma in RHIC experiments -- 7. LHC and Heavy Ions -- 8. New Directions -- 8.1. The phase diagram of QCD and heavy ion collisions at low to intermediate energy -- 8.2. The chiral magnetic effect -- 9. Summary -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 8. Chiral Symmetry in Subatomic Physics U.-G. Meibner -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Chiral Symmetry -- 3. Chiral Symmetry Breaking -- 4. Chiral Symmetry in QCD -- 5. The Essence of Chiral Perturbation Theory -- 6. The Long Road Towards Precision at Low Energies: Pion-Pion Scattering -- 7. Chiral Symmetry and Strange Quarks -- 8. On the "Pion Cloud" of the Nucleon -- 9. Three-Flavor Chiral Dynamics Reloaded -- 10. Chiral Symmetry, Nuclear Forces and the "Level of Life" -- 11. Chiral Symmetry and Heavy Quarks -- 12. Some Final Remarks -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 9. Exotic Nuclei Far From the Stability Line K. Hagino, I. Tanihata and H. Sagawa -- 1. Introduction -- 2. One-Neutron Halo Nuclei -- 2.1. Role of single-particle angular momentum -- 2.2. Coulomb dissociation -- 3. Two-Neutron Halo Nuclei -- 3.1. Two-nucleon correlation -- 3.2. Coulomb breakup -- 3.3. Charge radii of halo nuclei -- 3.4. Geometry of two-neutron halo nuclei -- 3.5. Two-nucleon radioactivity -- 3.6. Two-neutron transfer reactions -- 4. Heavier Neutron-Rich Nuclei -- 4.1. Matter radii and neutron skin thickness.

4.2. Odd-even staggering of interaction cross sections -- 4.3. Alpha cluster in neutron-rich nuclei -- 4.4. Shell evolution: Change of spherical magic numbers in neutron-rich nuclei -- 4.5. Deformed halo nuclei -- 4.6. Collective excitations of neutron-rich nuclei -- 5. Summary -- Acknowledgments -- References -- II: Particle Physics -- 10. A Short History of Colliders L. Evans -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Pathfinders -- 3. The "Production" Electron-Positron Machines -- 4. Hadron Colliders -- 5. Conclusion -- 11. 4 Detectors C. Tully -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Elementary Concepts of 4 Detection -- 3. Searching for the Higgs Boson -- 4. Photons and Electromagnetic Calorimeters -- 5. Electrons and Tracking Systems -- 6. Hadron Calorimeters -- 7. Muon Spectrometers -- 8. Jets, Heavy Flavor, and Vertex Detectors -- 9. Tau-Leptons and Missing Energy -- 10. Trigger, Data-Acquisition, and Computing -- 11. Global Detector Assembly -- 12. Future Developments -- References -- 12. Large Underground Detectors for Proton Decay and Neutrino Physics K. Scholberg -- 1. First-Generation Detectors for Proton Decay Searches -- 1.1. Tracking detectors -- 1.2. Water Cherenkov detectors -- 2. Hunting Neutrinos in the Wild -- 2.1. Solar neutrinos -- 2.1.1. Radiochemical detectors -- 2.1.2. Water Cherenkov detectors -- 2.2. Supernova 1987A -- 3. The Second Generation: Neutrino Oscillations -- 3.1. Atmospheric neutrino oscillations -- 3.1.1. Super-Kamiokande -- 3.2. Solar neutrino oscillations -- 3.2.1. The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory -- 3.2.2. Scintillation detectors and Borexino -- 4. Beams and Burns -- 4.1. Long-baseline oscillation experiments -- 4.2. Reactor neutrinos and KamLAND -- 5. Filling In the Matrix -- 6. The Next 100 Years -- 7. Summary -- References -- 13. Jets and QCD S. D. Ellis and D. E. Soper -- 1. Introduction.

2. Deeply Inelastic Scattering and Partons -- 3. Asymptotic Freedom -- 4. Soft Collisions of High Energy Hadrons -- 5. Why Are There Jets? -- 6. Jets and Data -- 6.1. Hadron-hadron collisions -- 6.2. e+e- collisions -- 7. Jets and pQCD -- 8. Concluding Remarks -- References -- 14. Diffractive Phenomena in High Energy Processes L. Frankfurt and M. Strikman -- 1. Introduction -- 2. General Properties of the Scattering Amplitude -- 2.1. Kinematics -- 2.2. S-matrix approach -- 2.3. Brief summary of analytic properties of amplitudes in energy, momentum and orbital momentum planes -- 3. Regge Poles in the S-matrix Theory -- 3.1. Regge poles and t-channel unitarity -- 3.2. Regge poles and high energy behavior of amplitudes of physical processes -- 3.3. Regge trajectories -- 3.4. Regge pole theory for non-vacuum exchanges -- 3.5. Non-universality of the Regge trajectories for the bound states containing heavy quarks -- 4. Pomeron Theory of High Energy Soft QCD Processes -- 4.1. Introducing the concept of the Pomeron exchange -- 4.1.1. Experimental evidence for the Pomeron trajectory -- 4.2. Pomeron calculus -- 4.3. Gribov diffusion in the impact parameter space within the Pomeron ladder -- 4.4. Observation of multi-Pomeron interactions: Soft diffraction in the triple Pomeron limit -- 4.5. Blackening of hadron-hadron interactions at central impact parameters -- 5. Space-time Evolution of High Energy Processes -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Linear increase of longitudinal distances in high energy processes with energy -- 5.3. Cancellation of the contribution of planar/ Glauber-approximation diagrams -- 6. Fluctuations of Color in Diffractive Phenomena -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Suppression of the strong interaction due to screening of color -- 6.3. Perturbative Pomeron -- 6.4. Distributions over strengths of the interaction for hadron and photon projectiles.

6.5. Diffraction in deep inelastic collisions as a pattern for the fluctuations of color.
Abstract:
By year 1911 radioactivity had been discovered for over a decade, but its origin remained a mystery. Rutherford's discovery of the nucleus and the subsequent discovery of the neutron by Chadwick started the field of subatomic physics - a quest for understanding the fundamental constituents of matter.This book reviews the important achievements in subatomic physics in the past century. The chapters are divided into two parts: nuclear physics and particle physics. Written by renowned authors who have made major developments in the field, this book provides the academics and researchers an essential overview of the present state of knowledge in nuclear and particle physics.
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