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Tables of Contents for Particles and Nuclei
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Hors d'oeuvre
1
11
Fundamental Constituents of Matter
1
1
Fundamental Interactions
2
2
Symmetries and Conservation Laws
4
1
Experiments
5
1
Units
6
5
Part I Analysis: The Building Blocks of Matter
Global Properties of Nuclei
11
14
The Atom and Its Constituents
11
2
Nuclides
13
5
Parametrisation of Binding Energies
18
3
Charge Independence of the Nuclear Force and Isospin
21
4
Problem
23
2
Nuclear Stability
25
16
β-Decay
26
5
α-Decay
31
3
Nuclear Fission
34
2
Decay of Excited Nuclear States
36
5
Problems
39
2
Scattering
41
12
General Observations About Scattering Processes
41
3
Cross Sections
44
4
The ``Golden Rule''
48
1
Feynman Diagrams
49
4
Problems
52
1
Geometric Shapes of Nuclei
53
20
Kinematics of Electron Scattering
53
3
The Rutherford Cross-Section
56
4
The Mott Cross-Section
60
1
Nuclear Form Factors
61
8
Inelastic Nuclear Excitations
69
4
Problems
71
2
Elastic Scattering off Nucleons
73
10
Form Factors of the Nucleons
73
5
Quasi-Elastic Scattering
78
2
Charge Radii of Pions and Kaons
80
3
Problems
82
1
Deep Inelastic Scattering
83
14
Excited States of the Nucleons
83
2
Structure Functions
85
3
The Parton Model
88
3
Interpretation of Structure Functions in the Parton Model
91
6
Problems
94
3
Quarks, Gluons, and the Strong Interaction
97
16
The Quark Structure of Nucleons
97
5
Quarks in Hadrons
102
1
The Quark--Gluon Interaction
103
4
Scaling Violations of the Structure Functions
107
6
Problems
111
2
Particle Production in e+e-- Collisions
113
14
Lepton Pair Production
114
4
Resonances
118
5
Non-Resonant Hadron Production
123
2
Gluon Emission
125
2
Problems
126
1
Phenomenology of the Weak Interaction
127
22
The Lepton Families
127
4
The Types of Weak Interactions
131
3
Coupling Strength of the Charged Current
134
4
The Quark Families
138
4
Parity Violation
142
2
Deep Inelastic Neutrino Scattering
144
5
Problems
147
2
Exchange Bosons of the Weak Interaction
149
14
Real W and Z Bosons
149
5
Electroweak Unification
154
9
Problems
161
2
The Standard Model
163
6
Part II Synthesis: Composite Systems
Quarkonia
169
18
The Hydrogen Atom and Positronium Analogues
169
3
Charmonium
172
3
Quark--Antiquark Potential
175
3
The Chromomagnetic Interaction
178
1
Bottonium and Toponium
179
2
The Decay Channels of Heavy Quarkonia
181
2
Decay Widths as a Test of Qcd
183
4
Problems
185
2
Mesons Made From Light Quarks
187
12
Mesonic Multiplets
187
4
Meson Masses
191
2
Decay Channels
193
2
Neutral Kaon Decay
195
4
Problems
197
2
The Baryons
199
28
The Production and Detection of Baryons
199
6
Baryon Multiplets
205
3
Baryon Masses
208
3
Magnetic Moments
211
4
Semileptonic Baryon Decays
215
8
How Good is the Constituent Quark Concept?
223
4
Problems
224
3
The Nuclear Force
227
16
Nucleon--Nucleon Scattering
228
4
The Deuteron
232
3
Nature of the Nuclear Force
235
8
Problems
241
2
The Structure of Nuclei
243
36
The Fermi Gas Model
243
5
Hypernuclei
248
3
The Shell Model
251
8
Deformed Nuclei
259
3
Spectroscopy Through Nuclear Reactions
262
7
β-Decay of the Nucleus
269
10
Problems
277
2
Collective Nuclear Excitations
279
26
Electromagnetic Transitions
280
3
Dipole Oscillations
283
8
Shape Oscillations
291
3
Rotation States
294
11
Problems
303
2
Nuclear Thermodynamics
305
26
Thermodynamical Description of Nuclei
306
2
Compound Nuclei and Quantum Chaos
308
3
The Phases of Nuclear Matter
311
5
Particle Physics and Thermodynamics in the Early Universe
316
7
Stellar Evolution and Element Synthesis
323
8
Problems
329
2
Many-Body Systems in the Strong Interaction
331
4
A Appendix
335
20
A.1 Accelerators
335
7
A.2 Detectors
342
10
A.3 Combining Angular Momenta
352
2
A.4 Physical Constants
354
1
Solutions to the Problems
355
24
Bibliography
379
8
Index
387