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| Preface to Second Edition | |
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| Notes | |
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| Basic Concepts | |
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| History | |
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| Relativity and Antiparticles | |
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| Space-Time Symmetries and Conservation Laws | |
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| Interactions and Feynman Diagrams | |
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| Particle Exchange: Forces and Potentials | |
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| Observable Quantities: Cross-sections and Decay Rates | |
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| Units: Length, Mass and Energy | |
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| Problems | |
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| Nuclear Phenomenology | |
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| Mass Spectroscopy | |
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| Nuclear Shapes and Sizes | |
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| Semi-Empirical Mass Formula: the Liquid Drop Model | |
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| Nuclear Instability | |
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| Radioactive Decay | |
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| +&Decay Phenomenology | |
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| Fission | |
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| +&Decays | |
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| Nuclear Reactions | |
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| Problems | |
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| Particle Phenomenology | |
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| Leptons | |
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| Quarks | |
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| Hadrons | |
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| Problems | |
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| Experimental Methods | |
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| Overview | |
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| Accelerators and Beams | |
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| Particle Interactions with Matter | |
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| Particle Detectors | |
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| Multi-Component Detector Systems | |
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| Problems | |
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| Quark Dynamics: The Strong Interaction | |
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| Colour | |
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| Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) | |
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| Heavy Quark Bound States | |
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| The Strong Coupling Constant and Asymptotic Freedom | |
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| Quark-Gluon Plasma | |
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| Jets and Gluons | |
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| Colour Counting | |
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| Deep Inelastic Scattering and Nucleon Structure | |
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| Problems | |
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| Weak Interactions And Electroweak Unification | |
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| Charged and Neutral Currents | |
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| Symmetries of the Weak Interaction | |
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| Spin Structure of the Weak Interactions | |
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| W-& and Z 0 Bosons | |
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| Weak Interactions of Hadrons: Charged Currents | |
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| Meson Decays and CP Violation | |
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| Neutral Currents and the Unified Theory | |
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| Problems | |
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| Models And Theories Of Nuclear Physics | |
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| The Nucleon-Nucleon Potential | |
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| Fermi Gas Model | |
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| Shell Model | |
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| Non-Spherical Nuclei | |
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| Summary of Nuclear Structure Models | |
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| +&-Decay | |
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| +&-Decay | |
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| +&-Emission and Internal Conversion | |
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| Problems | |
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| Applications Of Nuclear Physics | |
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| Fission | |
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| Fusion | |
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| Nuclear Weapons | |
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| Biomedical applications | |
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| Problems | |
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| Outstanding Questions and Future Prospects | |
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| Overview | |
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| Hadrons and Nuclei | |
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| The Origin of Mass: the Higgs Boson | |
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| The Nature of the Neutrino | |
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| Beyond the Standard Model: Unification Schemes | |
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| Particle Astrophysics | |
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| Nuclear Medicine | |
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| Power Production and Nuclear Waste | |
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| Some Results In Quantum Mechanics | |
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| Barrier Penetration | |
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| Density of States | |
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| Perturbation Theory and the Second Golden Rule | |
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| Isospin Formalism | |
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| Isospin operators and quark states | |
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| Hadron states | |
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| Relativistic Kinematics | |
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| Lorentz Transformations and Four-Vectors | |
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| Frames of Reference | |
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| Invariants | |
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| Problems B | |
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| Rutherford Scattering | |
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| Classical Physics | |
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| Quantum Mechanics | |
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| Problems C | |
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| Gauge Theories | |
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| Gauge Invariance and the Standard Model | |
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| Electromagnetism and the gauge principle | |
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| The standard model | |
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| Particle Masses and the Higgs Field | |
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| Data | |
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| Physical Constants and Conversion Factors | |
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| Tables of Particle Properties | |
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| Gauge bosons | |
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| Leptons | |
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| Quarks | |
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| Baryons | |
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| Mesons | |
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| Tables of Nuclear Properties | |
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| Properties of naturally occurring isotopes | |
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| The periodic table | |
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| Solutions To Problems | |
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| References | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| In | |