Atomic & Nuclear Physics

Ideas and Methods of Supersymmetry and Supergravity: Or a Walk Through Superspace provides a comprehensive, detailed, and self-contained account of four dimensional simple supersymmetry and supergravity. Throughout the book, the authors cultivate their material in detail with calculations and full d..

Written by some of the most prominent and active researchers in particle physics, this volume focuses on the first years of data collected at the LHC as well as the experimental and theoretical tools involved. It covers a broad spectrum of activity in particle physics, from the searches for the Higg..

This book explains the fundamental concepts, issues, and limitations of the Monte Carlo method. A practical guide to the method’s application, the text introduces the particle importance equation and its use for variance reduction, describes general and particle-transport-specific variance reduction..

Although the task remains unfinished, the end of the road for fusion research could be in sight if society makes the right decisions. This book is a careful, scholarly account of the course of fusion energy research over the past fifty years. The authors outline the different paths followed by fusio..

Various countries are starting to announce plans for new nuclear plants, either to replace those being decommissioned or to provide additional power. Many commentators regard this renaissance as just beginning. This book examines the future of nuclear power in the contexts of economics, environmenta..

Particle Physics..

Particle Physics and Inflationary Cosmology..

This book is intended for senior undergraduate and beginning graduate students in physics, nuclear engineering, health physics and nuclear medicine, and for specialized training courses for radiation protection personnel and environmental safety engineers...

Providing practical guidance on enhancing learning through ICT in English this book is made up of a series of projects that supplement, augment and extend the QCA ICT scheme and provide much-needed links with Units in other subjects schemes of work. It includes: _x005F_x000D__x005F_x000D_fact cards ..

Written by a specialist in stellar astrophysics, this book presents a rigorous but accessible treatment of the physics of stellar explosions from a multidisciplinary perspective at the crossroads of computational astrophysics, observational astronomy, cosmochemistry, and nuclear physics. Basic conce..

Relating the story of the transatlantic struggle for subnuclear domination, this book covers the history, the politics, and the personalities of particle physics. It sheds light on the sovereignty issues of modern scientific research as well as the insights it has produced...

Relating the story of the transatlantic struggle for subnuclear domination, this book covers the history, the politics, and the personalities of particle physics. Extensively illustrated with many original photographs of the key players in the field, it sheds new light on the sovereignty issues of m..