Ebook: Particles and Fundamental Interactions: Supplements, Problems and Solutions: A Deeper Insight into Particle Physics

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.

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The book provides theoretical and phenomenological insights on the structure of matter, presenting concepts and features of elementary particle physics and fundamental aspects of nuclear physics. Starting with the basics (nomenclature, classification, acceleration techniques, detection of elementary particles), the properties of fundamental interactions (electromagnetic, weak and strong) are introduced with a mathematical formalism suited to undergraduate students. Some experimental results (the discovery of neutral currents and of the W± and Z0 bosons; the quark structure observed using deep inelastic scattering experiments) show the necessity of an evolution of the formalism. This motivates a more detailed description of the weak and strong interactions, of the Standard Model of the microcosm with its experimental tests, and of the Higgs mechanism. The open problems in the Standard Model of the microcosm and macrocosm are presented at the end of the book. For example, the CP violation currently measured does not explain the matter­-antimatter asymmetry of the observable universe; the neutrino oscillations and the estimated amount of cosmological dark matter seem to require new physics beyond the Standard Model. A list of other introductory texts, work reviews and some specialized publications is reported in the bibliography. Translation from the Italian Language Edition "Particelle e interazioni fondamentali" by Sylvie Braibant, Giorgio Giacomelli, and Maurizio Spurio Copyright © Springer-Verlag Italia, 2009 Springer-Verlag Italia is part of Springer Science+Business Media All Rights Reserved Historical Notes and Fundamental Concepts -- Particle Interactions with Matter and Detectors -- Particle Accelerators and Particle Detection -- The Paradigm of Interactions: The Electromagnetic Case -- First Discussion of the Other Fundamental Interactions -- Invariance and Conservation Principles -- Interactions of Hadrons at Low Energies and the Static Quark Model -- Weak Interactions and Neutrinos -- Discoveries in Electron-Positron Collisions -- High Energy Interactions and the Dynamic Quark Model -- The Standard Model of the Microcosm -- CP-Violation and Particle Oscillations -- Microcosm and Macrocosm -- Fundamental Aspects of Nucleon Interactions

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The book provides theoretical and phenomenological insights on the structure of matter, presenting concepts and features of elementary particle physics and fundamental aspects of nuclear physics. Starting with the basics (nomenclature, classification, acceleration techniques, detection of elementary particles), the properties of fundamental interactions (electromagnetic, weak and strong) are introduced with a mathematical formalism suited to undergraduate students. Some experimental results (the discovery of neutral currents and of the W± and Z0 bosons; the quark structure observed using deep inelastic scattering experiments) show the necessity of an evolution of the formalism. This motivates a more detailed description of the weak and strong interactions, of the Standard Model of the microcosm with its experimental tests, and of the Higgs mechanism. The open problems in the Standard Model of the microcosm and macrocosm are presented at the end of the book. For example, the CP violation currently measured does not explain the matter­-antimatter asymmetry of the observable universe; the neutrino oscillations and the estimated amount of cosmological dark matter seem to require new physics beyond the Standard Model. A list of other introductory texts, work reviews and some specialized publications is reported in the bibliography. Translation from the Italian Language Edition "Particelle e interazioni fondamentali" by Sylvie Braibant, Giorgio Giacomelli, and Maurizio Spurio Copyright © Springer-Verlag Italia, 2009 Springer-Verlag Italia is part of Springer Science+Business Media All Rights Reserved Historical Notes and Fundamental Concepts -- Particle Interactions with Matter and Detectors -- Particle Accelerators and Particle Detection -- The Paradigm of Interactions: The Electromagnetic Case -- First Discussion of the Other Fundamental Interactions -- Invariance and Conservation Principles -- Interactions of Hadrons at Low Energies and the Static Quark Model -- Weak Interactions and Neutrinos -- Discoveries in Electron-Positron Collisions -- High Energy Interactions and the Dynamic Quark Model -- The Standard Model of the Microcosm -- CP-Violation and Particle Oscillations -- Microcosm and Macrocosm -- Fundamental Aspects of Nucleon Interactions