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Short but intense…

After a short, but intense, “intermezzo” as editor of the CERN Courier, I’m stepping down as I head off to new challenges. I would like to thank the CERN Courier Advisory Board and the m...

Data preservation is a journey

As an organisation with more than 60 years of history, CERN has created large volumes of “data” of many different types. This involves not only scientific data – by far the large...

The Composite Nambu–Goldstone Higgs

This book provides a description of a composite Higgs scenario as possible extension of the Standard Model (SM).

Chern–Simons (Super) Gravity – 100 Years of General Relativity (vol. 2)

Written on the basis of a set of lecture notes, this book provides a concise introduction to Chern–Simons (super) gravity theories accessible to graduate students and researchers in physics and math...

Wisdom of the Martians of Science: In Their Own Words with Commentaries

The book comes as a follow-up to a previous title, The Martians of Science, which drew the profiles of these five scientists and presented their contributions to their fields of research. The aim of t...

Excitons and Cooper Pairs: Two Composite Bosons in Many-Body Physics

This book deals with two major but different fields of condensed-matter physics, semiconductors and superconductors, starting from the consideration that the key particles of these materials, which ar...

Effective Field Theories

Francesco Riva reviews in 2016 Effective Field Theories.

Introduction to Soft-Collinear Effective Theory

The volume provides an essential and pedagogical introduction to soft-collinear effective field theory (SCET), one of the low-energy effective field theories (EFTs) of the Standard Model developed in ...

Quark–Gluon Plasma 5

As the fifth volume in a series on quark–gluon plasma (QGS), this text provides an update on the recent advances in theoretical and phenomenological studies of QGS.