1 Hors d'oeuvre 1.1 Fundamental Constituents of Matter 1.2 Fundamental Interactions 1.3 Symmetries and Conservation Laws 1.4 Experiments 1.5 Units Part I Analysis: The Building Blocks of Matter 2 Global Properties of Nuclei 2.1 The Atom and its Constituents 2.2 Nuclides 2.3 Parametrisation of Binding Energies 2.4 Charge Independence of the Nuclear Force and Isospin Problem 3 Nuclear Stability 3.1 fiLDecay 3.2 a-Decay 3.3 Nuclear Fission 3.4 Decay of Excited Nuclear States Problems 4 Scattering 4.1 General Observations About Scattering Processes 4.2 Cross Sections 4.3 The "Golden Rule" 4.4 Feynman Diagrams Problems 5 Geometric Shapes of Nuclei 5.1 Kinematics of Electron Scattering 5.2 The Rutherford Cross-Section 5.3 The Mott Cross-Section 5.4 Nuclear Form Factors 5.5 Inelastic Nuclear Excitations Problems 6 Elastic Scattering off Nucleons 6.1 Form Factors of the Nucleons 6.2 Quasi-elastic Scattering 6.3 Charge Radii of Pions and Kaons Problems 7 Deep Inelastic Scattering 7.1 Excited States of the Nucleons 7.2 Structure Functions 7.3 The Parton Model 7.4 Interpretation of Structure Functions in the Parton Model Problems 8 Quarks, Gluons, and the Strong Interaction 8.1 The Quark Structure of Nucleons 8.2 Quarks in Hadrons 8.3 The Quark-Gluon Interaction 8.4 Scaling Violations of the Structure Functions Problem 9 Particle Production in e+e- Collisions
9.1 Lepton Pair Production 9.2 Resonances 9.3 Non-resonant Hadron Production 9.4 Gluon Emission Problems 10 Phenomenology of the Weak Interaction 10.1 Properties of Leptons 10.2 The Types of Weak Interactions 10.3 Coupling Strength of the Weak Interaction 10.4 The Quark Families 10.5 The Lepton families 10.6 Majorana Neutrino? 10.7 Parity Violation 10.8 Deep Inelastic Neutrino Scattering Problems 11 Exchange Bosons of the Weak Interaction 11.1 Real W and Z Bosons 11.2 Electroweak Unification Problem 12 The Standard Model Part II Synthesis: Composite Systems 13 Quarkonia 13.1 The Hydrogen Atom and Positronium Analogues 13.2 Charmonium 13.3 Quark-Antiquark Potential 13.4 The Chromomagnetic Interaction 13.5 Bottonium and Toponium 13.6 The Decay Channels of Heavy Quarkonia 13.7 Decay Widths as a Test of QCD Problems 14 Mesons Made from Light Quarks 14.1 Mesonic Multiplets 14.2 Meson Masses 14.3 Decay Channels 14.4 Neutral Kaon Decay Problems 15 The Baryons 15.1 The Production and Detection of Baryons 15.2 Baryon Multiplets 15.3 Baryon Masses 15.4 Magnetic Moments 15.5 Semileptonic Baryon Decays 15.6 How Good is the Constituent Quark Concept? Problems 16 The Nuclear Force 16.1 Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering 16.2 The Deuteron 16.3 Nature of the Nuclear Force Problems 17 The Structure of Nuclei
17.1 The Fermi Gas Model 17.2 Hypernuclei 17.3 The Shell Model 17.4 Deformed Nuclei 17.5 Spectroscopy Through Nuclear Reactions 17.6 β-Decay of the Nucleus 17.7 Double β-decay Problems 18 Collective Nuclear Excitations 18.1 Electromagnetic Transitions 18.2 Dipole Oscillations 18.3 Shape Oscillations 18.4 Rotation States Problems 19 Nuclear Thermodynamics 19.1 Thermodynamical Description of Nuclei 19.2 Compound Nuclei and Quantum Chaos 19.3 The Phases of Nuclear Matter 19.4 Particle Physics and Thermodynamics in the Early Universe 19.5 Stellar Evolution and Element Synthesis Problems 20 Many-Body Systems in the Strong Interaction A Appendix A.1 Accelerators A.2 Detectors A.3 Combining Angular Momenta A.4 Physical Constants Solutions to the Problems References Index
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