Particles and Nuclei

Bogdan Povh, MPI Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg.Klaus Rith, Univ Erlangen-Nürnberg.Christoph Schulz, SAP AG.Werner Rodejohann, MPI Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg.Frank Zetsche, DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH, Langen.

• Hors d'oeuvre.- Analysis: The Building Blocks of Matter.- Global Properties of Nuclei.- Nuclear Stability.- Scattering.- Geometric Shapes of Nuclei.- Elastic Scattering off Nucleons.- Deep Inelastic Scattering.- Quarks, Gluons, and the Strong Interaction.- Particle Production in e+e− Collisions.- Phenomenology of the Weak Interaction.- Neutrino Oscillations and Neutrino Mass.- Exchange Bosons of the Weak Interaction and the Higgs Boson.- The Standard Model.-  Synthesis: Composite Systems.- Quarkonia.- Mesons.- The Baryons.- The Nuclear Force.- The Structure of Nuclei.- Collective Nuclear Excitations.- Nuclear Thermodynamics.- Many-Body Systems in the Strong Interaction.- Appendix.- Solutions to the Problems.

"The book 'Particles and Nuclei' represents a collection of fundamental topics in nuclear and particle physics and is divided in two parts. ... This book presents itself as an easy going lecture for students taking a course in nuclear and particle physics but it can be ... used as a handbook by specialists in the field." (Serban Misicu, zbMATH 1331.81003, 2016)