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LBNL celebrates its 75th anniversary with style

The lab that began life as the home of Lawrence's 27 inch cyclotron has grown into a multi-disciplinary research centre with a promising future. Spencer Klein takes a look at LBNL on the occasion of ...

Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies: Proceedings of the XXII International Symposium

Inside this volume, readers will find the latest results on flavour factories, quantum chromodynamics, electroweak physics, dark-matter searches, neutrino physics and cosmology, from a phenomenologica...

Quantum Mechanics in Phase Space: An Overview with Selected Papers

This book is a collection of the seminal papers on this formulation, with an introductory overview, an extensive bibliography, and simple illustrations, suitable for application to a broad range of ph...

Classical and Dissipative Quantum Systems

The aim of this book is to elucidate the origin and nature of dissipative forces and to present a detailed account of attempts to study dissipative phenomena in both classical mechanics and quantum th...

Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters, and Complexity

This book takes this step for statistical mechanics - a field rooted in physics and chemistry whose ideas and methods are now central to information theory, complexity and modern biology.

Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities

Both a history and a metahistory, this book focuses on the development of various theoretical representations of electrons from the late 1890s until 1925, and the methodological problems associated wi...

Particle Physics and Cosmology: The Quest for Physics Beyond the Standard Model(s) (TASI 2002)

This book features three lecture-series courses given at the School of the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute (TASI) on Elementary Particle Physics in 2002.

Philosophy of Science: A New Perspective

This "new perspective" discusses the philosophical issues inherent within the research pursued by scientists at the forefront today.

Iron Dominated Electromagnets: Design, Fabrication, Assembly and Measurements

Iron Dominated Electromagnets covers a wide scope of material ranging from the physical requirements for typical high-performance accelerators, through the mathematical relationships that describe the...