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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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