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The Conceptual Framework of Quantum Field Theory

This book attempts to provide an introduction to quantum field theory by emphasizing conceptual issues.

Reminiscences: A Journey through Particle Physics

A personal account as a research physicist for more than 50 years in areas of particle physics and related fields, Adrian Melissinos’s insights into the ways that general research was carried out a...

Exploring Quantum Mechanics: A Collection of 700+ Solved Problems for Students, Lecturers, and Researchers

This book presents more than 700 original problems in quantum mechanics, together with detailed solutions covering all aspects of quantum science.

Silicon Solid State Devices and Radiation Detection

Using their many years of experience both in research with silicon detectors and in giving lectures at various levels, Leroy and Rancoita address the fundamental principles of interactions between rad...

Effective Theories in Physics: From Planetary Orbits to Elementary Particle Masses

John Swain reviews in 2014 Effective Theories in Physics: From Planetary Orbits to Elementary Particle Masses.

À la recherche du boson de Higgs

Arnaud Marsollier reviews (in French) in 2014 À la recherche du boson de Higgs.

Compound Semiconductor Radiation Detectors

Bringing together information scattered across many disciplines, this book summarizes the status of research in compound semiconductor radiation detectors.

Lectures on LHC Physics

hese lectures are intended to be a brief but sufficiently detailed primer on LHC physics that will enable graduate students and any newcomer to the field to find their way through the more advanced li...

CERN’s 60th anniversary

On 29 September, it will be 60 years since CERN – the European Organization for Nuclear Research – came into being as the first scientific pan-European endeavour.