QCD and Collider Physics

QCD and Collider Physics

Author: R. K. Ellis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-12-04

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 9780521545891

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A detailed overview of the physics of high-energy colliders emphasising the role of QCD.


Time Reversibility, Computer Simulation, Algorithms, Chaos

Time Reversibility, Computer Simulation, Algorithms, Chaos

Author: William Graham Hoover

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 9814383163

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The book begins with a discussion, contrasting the idealized reversibility of basic physics against the pragmatic irreversibility of real life. Computer models, and simulation, are next discussed and illustrated. Simulations provide the means to assimilate concepts through worked-out examples. State-of-the-art analyses, from the point of view of dynamical systems, are applied to many-body examples from nonequilibrium molecular dynamics and to chaotic irreversible flows from finite-difference, finite-element, and particle-based continuum simulations. Two necessary concepts from dynamical-systems theory - fractals and Lyapunov instability - are fundamental to the approach. Undergraduate-level physics, calculus, and ordinary differential equations are sufficient background for a full appreciation of this book, which is intended for advanced undergraduates, graduates, and research workers.


Medical Applications of Lasers

Medical Applications of Lasers

Author: D.R. Vij

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-27

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 1461509297

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A careful review of the literature covering various aspects of applications of lasers in science and technology reveals that lasers are being applied very widely throughout the entire gamut of physical medicine. After surveying the current developments taking place in the field of medical applications of lasers, it was considered appropriate to bring together these efforts of international research scientists and experts into one volume. It is with this aim that the editors have prepared this volume which brings current research and recent developments to the attention of a wide spectrum of readership associated with hospitals, medical institutions and universities world wide, including also the medical instrument industry. Both teachers and students in the medical faculties will especially find this compendium quite useful. This book is comprised of eleven chapters. All of the important medical applications of lasers are featured. The editors have made every effort that individual chapters are self-contained and written by experts. Emphasis has been placed on straight and simple presentation of the subject matter so that even the new entrants into the field will find the book of value.


Photon Physics at the LHC

Photon Physics at the LHC

Author: Michael Hance

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-11-08

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 3642330622

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This thesis reports on the first studies of Standard Model photon production at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) using the ATLAS detector. Standard Model photon production is a large background in the search for Higgs bosons decaying into photon pairs, and is thus critical to understand. The thesis explains the techniques used to reconstruct and identify photon candidates using the ATLAS detector, and describes a measurement of the production cross section for isolated prompt photons. The thesis also describes a search for the Higgs boson in which the analysis techniques used in the measurement are exploited to reduce and estimate non-prompt backgrounds in diphoton events.


New Aspects of High-Energy Proton-Proton Collisions

New Aspects of High-Energy Proton-Proton Collisions

Author: A. Ali

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1461595401

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Articles focus on the planned European proton-proton collider, and concentrate on physics issues, rather than the more technical concerns addressed in the three previous workshops. The use of energies much higher than those of the American Superconducting Super Collider is featured. Topics include reviews of current projects, hadron collisions, lep


Introduction to High-energy Heavy-ion Collisions

Introduction to High-energy Heavy-ion Collisions

Author: Cheuk-Yin Wong

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 9789810202637

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Written primarily for researchers and graduate students who are new in this emerging field, this book develops the necessary tools so that readers can follow the latest advances in this subject. Readers are first guided to examine the basic informations on nucleon-nucleon collisions and the use of the nucleus as an arena to study the interaction of one nucleon with another. A good survey of the relation between nucleon-nucleon and nucleus-nucleus collisions provides the proper comparison to study phenomena involving the more exotic quark-gluon plasma. Properties of the quark-gluon plasma and signatures for its detection are discussed to aid future searches and exploration for this exotic matter. Recent experimental findings are summarised.