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“michael james duff”

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  • Memorial Volume On Abdus Salam's 90th Birthday

    by Lars Brink, Michael James Duff, Kok Khoo Phua ...
    'This book presents a timely set of academic and intellectual views on Salam’s scientific passion, contribution and personality, and will be of great interest to academics in the fields of particle physics, high energy physics and scientific history of the developing world.'Contemporary PhysicsIn honor of one of the most prolific and exciting scientists of the second half of the last century, a ... Read more

    $91.79 USD

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    by Albert Einstein ...
    E=mc2: It may be Einstein’s most well-known contribution to modern science, but how many people understand the thought process or physics behind this famous equation?In this collection of his seven most important essays on physics, Einstein guides his reader step-by-step through the many layers of scientific theory that formed a starting point for his discoveries. By both supporting and refuting ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Elementary Primer For Gauge Theory, An

    by K Moriyasu ...
    Gauge theory is now recognized as one of the most revolutionary discoveries in physics since the development of quantum mechanics. This primer explains how and why gauge theory has dramatically changed our view of the fundamental forces of nature. The text is designed for the non-specialist. A new, intuitive approach is used to make the ideas of gauge theory accessible to both scientists and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Introduction to the AdS/CFT Correspondence

    by Horaƫiu Năstase ...
    Providing a pedagogical introduction to the rapidly developing field of AdS/CFT correspondence, this is one of the first texts to provide an accessible introduction to all the necessary concepts needed to engage with the methods, tools and applications of AdS/CFT. Without assuming anything beyond an introductory course in quantum field theory, it begins by guiding the reader through the basic ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • The Higgs Boson Discovery at the Large Hadron Collider

    by Roger Wolf ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of the field of Higgs boson physics. It offers the first in-depth review of the complete results in connection with the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider and based on the full dataset for the years 2011 to 2012. The fundamental concepts and principles of Higgs physics are introduced and the important searches prior to the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Physics of the Manhattan Project

    by B. Cameron Reed ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The development of nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project is one of the most significant scientific events of the twentieth century. This book, prepared by a gifted teacher of physics, explores the challenges that faced the members of the Manhattan project. In doing so it gives a clear introduction to fission weapons at the level of an upper-level undergraduate physics student. Details of ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Nuclear Physics: Present and Future

    Edited by Walter Greiner ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    State-of-the-art survey by leading experts in the field. Major foci are superheavy nuclei and neutron-rich exotic nuclei. In addition new developments in nuclear fission and nuclear cluster decay are shown. Finally developments in relativistic heavy ion collisions and the physics of supercritical fields are detailed. ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • In Search of the Ultimate Building Blocks

    by Gerard 't Hooft ...
    This is a first-hand account of one of the most creative and exciting periods of discovery in the history of physics. From 1960 until 1990 theoreticians and experimentalists worked together to probe deeper and deeper into the basic structure of reality, moving closer and closer to an understanding of the ultimate building blocks from which everything in the Universe is made. Gerard 't Hooft was ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • The Experimental Foundations of Particle Physics

    by Robert N. Cahn, Gerson Goldhaber ...
    Our current understanding of elementary particles and their interactions emerged from break-through experiments. This book presents these experiments, beginning with the discoveries of the neutron and positron, and following them through mesons, strange particles, antiparticles, and quarks and gluons. This second edition contains new chapters on the W and Z bosons, the top quark, B-meson mixing ... Read more

    $110.69 USD

  • Frontiers in Fusion Research II

    Introduction to Modern Tokamak Physics

    by Mitsuru Kikuchi, Masafumi Azumi ...
    This book reviews recent progress in our understanding of tokamak physics related to steady state operation, and addresses the scientific feasibility of a steady state tokamak fusion power system. It covers the physical principles behind continuous tokamak operation and details the challenges remaining and new lines of research towards the realization of such a system. Following a short ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Search for Charginos Nearly Mass-Degenerate with the Lightest Neutralino

    Based on a Disappearing-Track Signature in pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV

    by Shingo Kazama ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    In this book, the anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking (AMSB) model is explored by searching for charged winos with their subsequent decays collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).The author develops a new method, called “re-tracking,” to detect charged winos that decay before reaching the Semiconductor Tracker (SCT) detector. Because the nominal tracking algorithm ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • 50 Years Of Quarks

    by Harald Fritzsch, Murray Gell-mann ...
    'Harald Fritzsch and Murray Gell-Mann, the two fathers of quantum chromodynamics, look back at the events that led to the discovery, and eventually acceptance, of quarks as constituent particles ... it is always worthwhile to reminisce about those times when theoretical physicists were truly eclectic, these stories are the testimony of a very active era, in which theoretical and experimental ... Read more

    $34.19 USD