A 30-year adventure with heavy ions
Heavy-ion and proton–proton collisions at ultrarelativistic energies provide a unique system with which to investigate the dynamics of matter in the early universe. By generating an incredibly hot a...
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Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World By Amir Alexander One World Lying midway between the history and the philosophy of science, this book illuminates a fascinati...
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Modern Atomic Physics By Vasant Natarajan CRC Press This book collates information from various literature to provide students with a unified guide to contemporary developments in atomic physics. In j...
General relativity at 100
As in precision electroweak experiments, it is useful to parameterise plausible deviations from general relativity.
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Particle Physics in the LHC Era By G Barr, D Devenish, R Walczak and T Weidberg Oxford University Press This book’s aim, as stated in the introduction, is to provide a practical introduction to part...
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Electron Lenses for Super-Colliders By Vladimir D Shiltsev Springer Also available at the CERN bookshop With an energetic writing style, in this book Vladimir Shiltsev presents a novel device for acce...
Secrets of discovery
Did you expect that gravitational waves would be discovered during your lifetime? Yes, and I thought it quite likely it would come from two colliding black holes of just the sort that we did see. I wr...
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Relativistic Quantum Mechanics: An Introduction to Relativistic Quantum Fields By Luciano Maiani and Omar Benhar CRC Press Quantum field theory (QFT) is the mathematical framework that forms the basis...
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Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy By Frank Close Oneworld Also available at the CERN bookshop In this book, Frank Close tells the story of the enigmatic life of...
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Experimental Studies of Neutrino Oscillations By Takaaki Kajita World Scientific This book on neutrino oscillations is mainly of historic interest. It consists of seven chapters that reproduce review ...
