Heavy Flavours

Heavy Flavours
Author: A J Buras
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 803
Release: 1992-11-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9814602825

This volume is a collection of review articles on the most outstanding topics in heavy flavour physics. All the authors have made significant contributions to this field. The book reviews in detail the theoretical structure of heavy flavour physics within the Standard Model and its confrontation with existing experimental data.The physics of the top quark and of the Higgs play an important role in this volume. Beginning with radiative electroweak corrections and their impressive tests at LEP and hadron colliders, the book summarizes the present status of quark mixing, CP violation and rare decays. The dynamics of exclusive D- and B-meson decays, the τ-lepton physics and the newly discovered heavy quark symmetries are discussed in detail. The impact of strong interactions on weak decays is clearly visible in many articles. The physics of heavy flavours at LEP, HERA and hadron colliders constitutes an important part of the book. Another significant topic is the possible role of heavy flavours in the spontaneous symmetry breaking of gauge symmetries. Finally the most recent advances in lattice calculations of the properties of heavy flavours and the lattice studies of the dynamics of heavy flavours are presented.

The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved

The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved
Author: Mario Livio
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2005-09-19
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0743274628

The author of The Golden Ratio tells the “lively and fascinating” story of two nineteenth-century mathematicians whose work revealed the laws of symmetry (Nature). What do Bach’s compositions, Rubik’s Cube, the way we choose our mates, and the physics of subatomic particles have in common? All are governed by the laws of symmetry, which elegantly unify scientific and artistic principles. Yet the mathematical language of symmetry—known as group theory—did not emerge from the study of symmetry at all, but from an equation that couldn’t be solved. For three centuries, the quintic equation resisted efforts by mathematicians to find a solution. Working independently, two great prodigies ultimately proved that it couldn’t be solved by a simple formula. These geniuses, a Norwegian named Niels Henrik Abel and a romantic Frenchman named Évariste Galois, both died tragically young. Their incredible labor, however, produced the origins of group theory. The first extensive, popular account of the mathematics of symmetry and order, The Equation That Couldn’t Be Solved is told not through abstract formulas but in a dramatic account of the lives and work of some of the greatest mathematicians in history.

Photon-hadron Interactions

Photon-hadron Interactions
Author: Richard P. Feynman
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1989-01-21
Genre: Science
ISBN:

Analyzes the theoretical questions related to electron and photon interactions at high energies.

Inclusive b Jet Production in Proton-Proton Collisions

Inclusive b Jet Production in Proton-Proton Collisions
Author: Patrick L.S. Connor
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2019-11-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030343839

^ 74 GeV and |y| 2.4; the b jets must contain a B hadron. The measurement has significant statistics up to p T ∼ O(TeV). Advanced methods of unfolding are performed to extract the signal. It is found that fixed-order calculations with underlying event describe the measurement well.

Multiple Parton Interactions at the LHC

Multiple Parton Interactions at the LHC
Author: Paolo Bartalini
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2018-11-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 981322777X

Many high-energy collider experiments (including the current Large Hadron Collider at CERN) involve the collision of hadrons. Hadrons are composite particles consisting of partons (quarks and gluons), and this means that in any hadron–hadron collision there will typically be multiple collisions of the constituents — i.e. multiple parton interactions (MPI). Understanding the nature of the MPI is important in terms of searching for new physics in the products of the scatters, and also in its own right to gain a greater understanding of hadron structure. This book aims at providing a pedagogical introduction and a comprehensive review of different research lines linked by an involvement of MPI phenomena. It is written by pioneers as well as young leading scientists, and reviews both experimental findings and theoretical developments, discussing also the remaining open issues.

Symmetries and Group Theory in Particle Physics

Symmetries and Group Theory in Particle Physics
Author: Giovanni Costa
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2012-02-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642154824

Symmetries, coupled with the mathematical concept of group theory, are an essential conceptual backbone in the formulation of quantum field theories capable of describing the world of elementary particles. This primer is an introduction to and survey of the underlying concepts and structures needed in order to understand and handle these powerful tools. Specifically, in Part I of the book the symmetries and related group theoretical structures of the Minkowskian space-time manifold are analyzed, while Part II examines the internal symmetries and their related unitary groups, where the interactions between fundamental particles are encoded as we know them from the present standard model of particle physics. This book, based on several courses given by the authors, addresses advanced graduate students and non-specialist researchers wishing to enter active research in the field, and having a working knowledge of classical field theory and relativistic quantum mechanics. Numerous end-of-chapter problems and their solutions will facilitate the use of this book as self-study guide or as course book for topical lectures.

Multiparticle Dynamics - Proceedings Of The Xxxii International Symposium

Multiparticle Dynamics - Proceedings Of The Xxxii International Symposium
Author: Alexey N Sissakian
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2003-07-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814485721

This book covers a wide range of problems in elementary particle production physics — particle fluctuations and correlations, diffractive processes, soft and hard processes in quantum chromodynamics, heavy ion collisions, etc. Of the utmost importance are inclusion-theoretical papers devoted to the problems associated with high and even very high multiplicity particle production, making proposals for experiments at existing and forthcoming colliders of elementary particles.

Soft Multihadron Dynamics

Soft Multihadron Dynamics
Author: E Wolfram Kittel
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 670
Release: 2005-05-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814480541

This book gives a comprehensive account of the development and present status of the field of soft (i.e. non-perturbative) phenomena encountered in the production of (multi-) hadronic final states by the collision of various types of particles at high energies. Phenomenological models used to describe the data are in general inspired by Quantum Chromo Dynamics (QCD) and the book repeatedly crosses the border — if at all existent — between soft (non-perturbative) and hard (perturbative) QCD.