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Cockcroft’s subatomic legacy: splitting the atom

Looking back 75 years to the first accelerator-based physics experiment.

The New Cosmic Onion: Quarks and the Nature of the Universe

Dave Barney reviews in 2007 The New Cosmic Onion: Quarks and the Nature of the Universe.

Brookhaven and CERN: the AGS and the PS

Ernest Courant recalls the early days of big synchrotrons.

Father of the shell model

Heidelberg University celebrates the centenary of Hans Jensen's birth.

Postcards from the LHC

Photos record the preparations for the collider and detectors.

Statistical Methods in Experimental Physics (2nd edition)

In this second edition many chapters now include considerable new material, especially in areas concerning the theory and practice of confidence intervals, including the important Feldman–Cousins me...

Advanced Quantum Theory (3rd edition)

This book looks at the techniques that are used in theoretical elementary-particle physics that are extended to other branches of modern physics.

Fundamental Physics for Probing and Imaging

This book is for every physicist who has ever needed to answer the question: what is physics for?

Conceptions of Cosmos. From Myths to the Accelerating Universe: A History of Cosmology

This is a historical account of how natural philosophers and scientists have endeavoured to understand the universe at large, first in a mythical and later in a scientific context.