By Claude Amsler
IOP Publishing
This textbook provides an introductory course on nuclear and particle physics for undergraduate and early graduate students. It originated from a series of lectures given at the Physics Institute of the University of Zurich by the author. The subjects are presented following their historical development. The explanations are experimentally and phenomenologically orientated, and often make use of intuitive arguments. In addition, many concepts and phenomena are derived with inductive rather than deductive thinking.
Originally published in German, this new version in English has been enriched with several modern topics, such as the Higgs boson, updates on neutrinos, the top quark and bottom-quark physics.
