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ISBN: 9814462705
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Languages : en
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Physics of the Large and the Small
Author: Physics of the Large and the Small
Author: Csaba Cs kiPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814327174
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 851
Book Description
This volume presents a set of pedagogical lectures that introduce particle physics beyond the standard model and particle cosmology to advanced graduate students.
The Little Book of Cosmology
Author: Lyman PagePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691201692
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The cutting-edge science that is taking the measure of the universe The Little Book of Cosmology provides a breathtaking look at our universe on the grandest scales imaginable. Written by one of the world's leading experimental cosmologists, this short but deeply insightful book describes what scientists are revealing through precise measurements of the faint thermal afterglow of the Big Bang—known as the cosmic microwave background, or CMB—and how their findings are transforming our view of the cosmos. Blending the latest findings in cosmology with essential concepts from physics, Lyman Page first helps readers to grasp the sheer enormity of the universe, explaining how to understand the history of its formation and evolution in space and time. Then he sheds light on how spatial variations in the CMB formed, how they reveal the age, size, and geometry of the universe, and how they offer a blueprint for the formation of cosmic structure. Not only does Page explain current observations and measurements, he describes how they can be woven together into a unified picture to form the Standard Model of Cosmology. Yet much remains unknown, and this incisive book also describes the search for ever deeper knowledge at the field's frontiers—from quests to understand the nature of neutrinos and dark energy to investigations into the physics of the very early universe.
Big And The Small Vol.2
Author: Ganesan VenkataramanPublisher:
ISBN: 9788173715747
Category : Cosmology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is the second part of the two-volume set entitled The Big and the Small. In the earlier volume, Journey into the Microcosm: the Story of Elementary Particles, the story of elementary particle physics was related. In the present volume the author describes how the physics of elementary particles allow us to reconstruct the origin of the universe and its subsequent evolution. Carrying on from the point where volume 1 was concluded, the story of the fascinating quest for the Ultimate Theory (the theory that stands all by itself and does not rest on any other pedestal) is revealed here in the context of the shortcomings of the Standard Model.
Models for Physics of the Very Small and Very Large
Author: Thomas J. BuckholtzPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9462391661
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
This monograph tackles three challenges. First, show a mathematics-based meta-model that matches known elementary particles. Second, apply models, based on the meta-model, to match other known physics data. Third, predict future physics data. The math features solutions to isotropic pairs of isotropic quantum harmonic oscillators. This monograph matches some solutions to known elementary particles. Matched properties include spin, types of interactions in which the particles partake, and (for elementary bosons) approximate masses. Other solutions point to possible elementary particles. This monograph applies the models and the extended particle list. Results narrow gaps between physics data and theory. Results pertain to elementary particles, astrophysics, and cosmology. For example, this monograph predicts properties for beyond-the-Standard-Model elementary particles, proposes descriptions of dark matter and dark energy, provides new relationships between known physics constants (including masses of some elementary particles), includes theory that dovetails with the ratio of dark matter to ordinary matter, includes math that dovetails with the number of elementary-fermion generations, suggests forces that govern the rate of expansion of the universe, and suggests additions to and details for the cosmology timeline.
Big and the Small
Author: G. VenkataramanPublisher: Universities Press
ISBN: 9788173712272
Category : Nuclear physics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Particle Physics: a Very Short Introduction
Author: Frank ClosePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019287375X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Following the discovery of the Higgs boson, Frank Close has produced this major revision to his classic and compelling introduction to the fundamental particles that make up the universe.
Searching for New Physics at Small and Large Scales
Author: Martin SchmaltzPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814525235
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
This volume is a compilation of the lectures at TASI 2012, held in Boulder, Colorado, June 2012. The program comprises two parallel lecture series on particle physics and on cosmology. The particle physics lectures covers LHC related experimental techniques, phenomenology, as well as basics in physics beyond the standard model. The cosmology series give a general introduction to modern cosmology with special attention to the topics of dark matter, the microwave background and alternatives to the standard model of cosmology. The lectures are accessible to graduate students at the initial stages of their research careers. Contents:Dark Energy Models (R R Caldwell)Cosmological Perturbations (J Lesgourges)Implications of the Higgs Boson and the LHC for the MSSM (A Pierce)Astrophysical Probes of Dark Matter (S Profumo)Modified Gravity (F Schmidt)TASI 2012 Lectures on Inflation (L Senatore)Jet Substructure (J Shelton)Introduction to QCD (P Skands)Super-Tricks for Superspace (D Bertolini, J Thaler and Z Thomas)TASI 2012 Participants (The Students) Readership: Graduate students and researchers in high energy physics, astroparticle physics and cosmology. Keywords:High Energy Physics;Cosmology;Dark Matter;Physics Beyond Standard Model
The Very Big, the Very Fast, and the Very Small: The new physics simplified
Author: Clayton LagerquistPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1430311061
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Clayton Lagerquist is an amateur physicist with a degree in physics from Minnesota State University and a graduate degree in engineering from the University of Minnesota. He is now retired from an active career in health physics while maintaining his readings in cosmology, relativity, and quantum mechanics. He hopes to bring some of his knowledge of the latest findings in physics to those who are discovering some of these wonders for the first time. His candor about his lack of knowledge in some areas may spur others to investigate these areas in more detail for themselves.
Deep Down Things
Author: Bruce A. SchummPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801879715
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
A useful scientific theory, claimed Einstein, must be explicable to any intelligent person. In Deep Down Things, experimental particle physicist Bruce Schumm has taken this dictum to heart, providing in clear, straightforward prose an elucidation of the Standard Model of particle physics -- a theory that stands as one of the crowning achievements of twentieth-century science. In this one-of-a-kind book, the work of many of the past century's most notable physicists, including Einstein, Schrodinger, Heisenberg, Dirac, Feynman, Gell-Mann, and Weinberg, is knit together in a thorough and accessible exposition of the revolutionary notions that underlie our current view of the fundamental nature of the physical world. Schumm, who has spent much of his life emmersed in the subatomic world, goes far beyond a mere presentation of the "building blocks" of matter, bringing to life the remarkable connection between the ivory tower world of the abstract mathematician and the day-to-day, life-enabling properties of the natural world. Schumm leaves us with an insight into the profound open questions of particle physics, setting the stage for understanding the progress the field is poised to make over the next decade or two. Introducing readers to the world of particle physics, Deep Down Things opens new realms within which are many clues to unraveling the mysteries of the universe.
