Origins and Education -- Institute for Advanced Study, 1948–1949, Theory -- Berkeley, 1949–1950, Accelerators -- Properties of Pi Mesons -- Strange Particles and Bubble Chambers -- Neutrinos I -- CP Violation -- Neutrinos, II -- Experiments with the LEP e+e? Collider.Embedded in an autobiographic framework, this book retraces vividly and in some depth the golden years of particle physics as…
Masses -- Radioactivity -- Moments and radii -- Reactions -- Clusters and drip lines -- Excited states -- Nuclear structure theory -- Heavy elements -- Nuclear astrophysics -- Fundamental symmetries -- Radioactive ion beam production and applications -- Conference summary -- Erratum.
to Particle-Beam Formation -- Methods of Fields Calculation -- Fundamentals of Charged-Particle Motion -- Motion of Intense Charged-Particle Beams -- Electron Guns -- Electron and Ion Sources with Field and Plasma Emitters -- Magnetic Focusing Systems -- Electrostatic Focusing Systems -- Optical Systems of Technological Installations -- Intense Relativistic Charged-Particle Beams -- Multiple-Be…
In-situ Measurements -- Characterization of Pigments Used in Ancient Egypt -- Importance of in-situ EDXRF Measurements in the Preservation and Conservation of Material Culture -- Scientific Field Research in Egypt -- Use of Ion Beam -- Ion Beam Techniques for the Non-destructive Analysis of Archaelogical Materials -- The Origin of Ancient Gemstones Unveiled by PIXE, PIGE and ?-Raman Spectrometr…
From the contents Preface -- List of Participants -- The IMF Concept through Time -- The IMF in our Galaxy: Clusters and field stars -- The IMF in our Galaxy: Star Forming Regions -- The Extragalactic IMF -- The Origin of the IMF: Atomic and Molecular Gas Tracers -- The Origin of the IMF: Cloud Fragmentation and Collapse -- The Origin of the IMF: From Gas to Stars -- The "Initial" IMF -- Chuzpa…
Knot Invariants and Configuration Space Integrals (Christine Lescop) -- Euclidean Quantum Field Theory on Commutative and Noncommutative Spaces (Raimar Wulkenhaar) -- Introduction to String Compactification (Anamaria Font, Stefan Theisen) -- Index Theorems and Noncommutative Topology (Thierry Fack).This volume offers an introduction, in the form of four extensive lectures, to some recent develo…
Introduction -- Basic concepts of Nuclear Physics -- Nuclear Models and Stability of the Nucleus -- Nuclear Reactions -- Nuclear Decays and Fundamental Interactions -- Radioactivity and all that -- Fission -- Fusion -- Nuclear Astrophysics -- Nuclear Cosmology -- Relativistic kinematics -- Accelerators -- Time-dependent perturbation theory -- Nutron transport -- Solutions and Hints for Selected…
A unified model for black hole X-ray binary jets? -- On the relationship between the jets from X-ray binaries and AGN -- A transition in the accretion properties of AGN -- Jet-disc coupling in the accreting black hole XTE J1118+480 -- Are 3C 120 and other active galactic nuclei overweight microquasars? -- A fundamental plane of black hole activity: Pushing forward the unification scheme -- Magn…
Introductory talks -- Today’s view on strangeness -- Strange and gluonic contributions to the nucleon spin -- Form factors and two-photon effects -- Electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon -- Two photon effects in electron scattering -- Single spin asymmetries in elastic electron-nucleon scattering -- Transverse single spin asymmetry in elastic electron-proton scattering -- Transverse spi…