When this innovative textbook first appeared in 1984, it rapidly became a great success throughout the world and has already been translated into several European and Asian languages. Now, the authors have completely revised and updated the text, including more than 2000 new literature references to[...]
This clear and concise introduction to nuclear physics provides an excellent basis for a core undergraduate course in this area. The book opens by setting nuclear physics in the context of elementary particle physics and then shows how simple models can provide an understanding of the properties of [...]
The new edition of this introductory graduate textbook provides a concise but accessible introduction to the Standard Model. It has been updated to account for the successes of the theory of strong interactions, and the observations on matter-antimatter asymmetry. It has become clear that neutrinos [...]