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This book is a journey through the wonders of physics, the special
thousandth volume of the renowned Lecture Notes in Physics book
series. From quantum physics to solar physics, this volume
showcases the beauty of physics in various fields. Written by
series editors and colleagues, these essays are accessible to
non-specialists and graduate-level students alike, making for an
intriguing read for anyone interested in learning about physics
beyond their own field of study. Explore the historical development
of the series with two insightful forewords. List of essays: A New
Era of Quantum Materials Mastery and Quantum Simulators In and Out
of Equilibrium Evaluation and Utility of Wilsonian Naturalness The
Geometric Phase: Consequences in Classical and Quantum Physics The
Coming Decades of Quantum Simulation Insights into Complex
Functions Exploring the Hottest Atmosphere with the Parker Solar
Probe A Primer on the Riemann Hypothesis
This open access book... There is significant interest in the
Philosophy of Science community to understand the role that
"effective theories" have in the work of forefront science. The
ideas of effective theories have been implicit in science for a
long time, but have only been articulated well in the last few
decades. Since Wilson's renormalization group revolution in the
early 1970's, the science community has come to more fully
understand its power, and by the mid-1990's it had gained its
apotheosis. It is still one of the most powerful concepts in
science, which has direct impact in how one thinks about and
formulates theories of nature. It is this power that this Brief
sets out to emphasize through historical analysis and current
examples. This is an open access book.
The goal of this essay is to discuss the future of discovery in
particle physics. Its primary motivation is the 2019 European
Strategy update, which aims to determine the future experimental
and theoretical priorities for particle physics. A key question is
to understand what the standard theory (Standard Model) of particle
physics really is, which the author argues has been a foggy notion
for several decades which he clarifies. It then is to decide what
motivated beyond the Standard Model theories are to be targeted by
experiment. This book brightly exposes these theories, and puts
current particle physics research into its historical context and
points the way toward future work.
The Standard Model of elementary particle physics was tentatively
outlined in the early 1970s. The concepts of quarks, leptons,
neutrinos, gauge symmetries, chiral interactions, Higgs boson,
strong force, weak force, and electromagnetism were all put
together to form a unifying theory of elementary particles.
Furthermore, the model was developed within the context of
relativistic quantum field theory, making it compatible with all of
the laws of Einstein's Special Relativity. The successes of the
Standard Model over the years have been tremendous and enduring,
leading up to the recent discovery and continuing study of the
Higgs boson. This book is a comprehensive and technical
introduction to Standard Model physics. Martin and Wells provide
readers who have no prior knowledge of quantum field theory or
particle physics a firm foundation into the fundamentals of both.
The emphasis is on obtaining practical knowledge of how to
calculate cross-sections and decay rates. There is no better way to
understand the necessary abstract knowledge and solidify its
meaning than to learn how to apply it to the computation of
observables that can be measured in a laboratory. Beginning
graduate students, both experimental and theoretical, and advanced
undergraduate students interested in particle physics, will find
this to be an ideal one-semester textbook to begin their technical
learning of elementary particle physics.
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