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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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Problem | |
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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 | |