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| Hors d'oeuvre | |
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| Fundamental Constituents of Matter | |
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| Fundamental Interactions | |
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| Symmetries and Conservation Laws | |
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| Experiments | |
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| Units | |
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| Analysis: The Building Blocks of Matter | |
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| Global Properties of Nuclei | |
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| The Atom and its Constituents | |
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| Nuclides | |
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| Parametrisation of Binding Energies | |
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| Charge Independence of the Nuclear Force and Isospin | |
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| Problem | |
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| Nuclear Stability | |
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| [beta]-Decay | |
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| [alpha]-Decay | |
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| Nuclear Fission | |
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| Decay of Excited Nuclear States | |
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| Problems | |
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| Scattering | |
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| General Observations About Scattering Processes | |
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| Cross Sections | |
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| The "Golden Rule" | |
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| Feynman Diagrams | |
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| Problems | |
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| Geometric Shapes of Nuclei | |
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| Kinematics of Electron Scattering | |
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| The Rutherford Cross-Section | |
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| The Mott Cross-Section | |
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| Nuclear Form Factors | |
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| Inelastic Nuclear Excitations | |
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| Problems | |
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| Elastic Scattering off Nucleons | |
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| Form Factors of the Nucleons | |
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| Quasi-elastic Scattering | |
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| Charge Radii of Pions and Kaons | |
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| Problems | |
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| Deep Inelastic Scattering | |
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| Excited States of the Nucleons | |
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| Structure Functions | |
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| The Parton Model | |
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| Interpretation of Structure Functions in the Parton Model | |
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| Problems | |
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| Quarks, Gluons, and the Strong Interaction | |
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| The Quark Structure of Nucleons | |
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| Quarks in Hadrons | |
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| The Quark-Gluon Interaction | |
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| Scaling Violations of the Structure Functions | |
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| Problem | |
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| Particle Production in e[superscript +]e[superscript -] Collisions | |
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| Lepton Pair Production | |
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| Resonances | |
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| Non-resonant Hadron Production | |
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| Gluon Emission | |
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| Problems | |
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| Phenomenology of the Weak Interaction | |
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| Properties of Leptons | |
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| The Types of Weak Interactions | |
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| Coupling Strength of the Weak Interaction | |
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| The Quark Families | |
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| The Lepton families | |
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| Majorana Neutrino? | |
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| Parity Violation | |
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| Deep Inelastic Neutrino Scattering | |
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| Problems | |
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| Exchange Bosons of the Weak Interaction | |
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| Real W and Z Bosons | |
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| Electroweak Unification | |
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| The Standard Model | |
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| Synthesis: Composite Systems | |
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| Quarkonia | |
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| The Hydrogen Atom and Positronium Analogues | |
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| Charmonium | |
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| Quark-Antiquark Potential | |
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| The Chromomagnetic Interaction | |
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| Bottonium and Toponium | |
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| The Decay Channels of Heavy Quarkonia | |
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| Decay Widths as a Test of QCD | |
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| Problems | |
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| Mesons Made from Light Quarks | |
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| Mesonic Multiplets | |
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| Meson Masses | |
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| Decay Channels | |
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| Neutral Kaon Decay | |
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| Problems | |
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| The Baryons | |
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| The Production and Detection of Baryons | |
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| Baryon Multiplets | |
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| Baryon Masses | |
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| Magnetic Moments | |
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| Semileptonic Baryon Decays | |
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| How Good is the Constituent Quark Concept? | |
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| Problems | |
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| The Nuclear Force | |
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| Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering | |
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| The Deuteron | |
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| Nature of the Nuclear Force | |
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| Problems | |
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| The Structure of Nuclei | |
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| The Fermi Gas Model | |
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| Hypernuclei | |
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| The Shell Model | |
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| Deformed Nuclei | |
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| Spectroscopy Through Nuclear Reactions | |
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| [beta]-Decay of the Nucleus | |
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| Double [beta]-decay | |
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| Problems | |
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| Collective Nuclear Excitations | |
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| Electromagnetic Transitions | |
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| Dipole Oscillations | |
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| Shape Oscillations | |
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| Rotation States | |
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| Problems | |
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| Nuclear Thermodynamics | |
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| Thermodynamical Description of Nuclei | |
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| Compound Nuclei and Quantum Chaos | |
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| The Phases of Nuclear Matter | |
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| Particle Physics and Thermodynamics in the Early Universe | |
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| Stellar Evolution and Element Synthesis | |
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| Problems | |
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| Many-Body Systems in the Strong Interaction | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Accelerators | |
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| Detectors | |
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| Combining Angular Momenta | |
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| Physical Constants | |
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| Solutions to the Problems | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |