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Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics By Jean Bricmont Springer In this book, Jean Bricmont aims to challenge Richard Feynman’s famous statement that “nobody understands quantum mechanics” and discu...
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Challenges and Goals for Accelerators in the XXI Century By Oliver Brüning and Stephen Myers (eds) World Scientific Also available at the CERN bookshop This mighty 840 page book covers an impressive ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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Tunnel VisionsBy M Riordan, L Hoddeson and A W KolbUniversity of Chicago PressAlso available at the CERN bookshop The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), a huge accelerator to be built in Texas in t...
