Particles and nuclei: an introduction to the physical concepts

Bogdan Povh, Klaus Rith, Christoph Scholz, Frank Zetsche, Martin Lavelle3540366830, 9783540366836

This introductory textbook gives a uniform presentation of nuclear and particle physics. The first part, Analysis, is devoted to disentangling the substructure of matter. This part shows that experiments designed to uncover the substructures of nuclei and nucleons have a similar conceptual basis, and lead to the present picture of all matter being built out of a small number of elementary building blocks and a small number of fundamental interactions. The second part, Synthesis, shows how the elementary particles may be combined to build hadrons and nuclei. The fundamental interactions responsible for the forces in all systems become less and less evident in increasingly complex systems. Such systems are in fact dominated by many-body phenomena. A section on neutrino oscillations and one on nuclear matter at high temperatures bridge the field of “nuclear and particle physics” and “modern astrophysics and cosmology”. New developments are covered, e. g. in sections on the double beta decay including a discussion of the possibility of a neutrinoless decay and its implications for the standard model. This concise text, translated into many languages, has become a standard reference for advanced and undergraduate courses.

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Table of contents :
front-matter……Page 1
1……Page 11
2……Page 18
3……Page 31
4……Page 47
5……Page 59
6……Page 78
7……Page 88
8……Page 101
9……Page 116
10……Page 130
11……Page 154
12……Page 167
13……Page 171
14……Page 188
15……Page 199
16……Page 226
17……Page 241
18……Page 281
19……Page 306
20……Page 332
back-matter……Page 336