This introductory textbook gives a uniform presentation of nuclear and particle physics. The first part, "analysis" is devoted to disentangling the substructure of matter, showing that experiments designed to uncover the substructures of nuclei and nucleons have a similar conceptual basis. They lead to the present picture of all matter being built out of a small number of elementary building blocks and a small number of fundamental interactions. The second part, "synthesis", shows how the elementary particles may be combined to build hadrons and nuclei. The fundamental interactions responsible for the forces in all systems become less and less evident in increasingly complex systems. Such systems are in fact dominated by many-body phenomena. In the third edition an added section on neutrino oscillations and one on nuclear matter at high temperatures bridges the fields of modern astrophysics and cosmology. This concise text is well suited for advanced and undergraduate courses.
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"...an excellent introduction to nuclear and particle physics... A very clear presentation... I thus recommend this book as a very good phenomenological approach to the physics of particles and nuclei..."
PHYSICALIA (REVIEW OF FIRST EDITION)
"…An excellent introduction to nuclear and particle physics…A very clear presentation is given of the basic knowledge concerning the constituents of matter at the infra-atomic scale and the fundamental forces between them (except for gravitation)…Intended for undergraduate students, [Particles and Nuclei] also offers a pleasant and instructive lecture for more advanced scientists, in particular Ph.D. students." Physicalia
This introductory textbook - now in its third edition - gives a uniform presentation of nuclear and particle physics. The first part is devoted to disentangling the substructure of matter. The part shows that experiments designed to uncover the substructures of nuclei and nucleons have a similar conceptual basis, and lead to the present picture of all matter being built out of a small number of elementary building blocks and a small number of fundamental interactions. The second part shows how the elementary particles may be combined to build hadrons and nuclei. The fundamental interactions responsible for the forces in all systems become less and less evident in increasingly complex systems. In the third edition a new section on neutrino oscillations and one on nuclear matter at high temperatures bridges the fields of modern astrophysics and cosmology. This concise text is well suited for advanced and undergraduate courses.|| Some praise for the previous editions:||" . . . An excellent introduction to nuclear and particle physics . . . A very clear presentation . . . I thus recommend this book as a very good phenomenological approach to the physics of particles and nuclei . . . "|- Physicalia
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German
Original Language: German
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This book was an eye-opening discovery to me. I was introduced to another book at my American college-- Perkins: "Intro to High Energy Physics". Want a fine reference book for your shelf? Get Perkins. Want to actually *learn* the subject? Get THIS book by Povh et al!
What I like: - First, it accomplishes an amazing presentation task. The subject area itself is somewhere between graduate level and not-even-solved active research (eg quark theory). Yet it manages a presentation that is readable at the undergraduate level. - It is a relatively short and punchy presentation. It presents a small number of cases per topic that have the most instructive physics; and within those cases it often focuses on simple, memorable extremes. A lot of thought and refinement must have gone into this! This is great for learning, since I think we humans learn and retain things that are simple and extreme. - The text is full of teaching and applying *physical intuition*. My MasterCard commercial: "Physics text brimming with formulas: $70. Intuition: Priceless." - Why I find this book so satisfying: When you got into science in the first place, didn't you have those visceral curiosities, like "just how big is this body compared to that?", or "what is its shape?"? This book addresses that in a satisfying way. In addition to it being thoughtfully illustrated, the text seems to strive to connect measured things, eg Fourier components, back to a tangible description. - I'm grateful to its teaching me about the nuclear regime. Since sub-nuclear fundamental particles have been the sexy forefront forever, the nucleus doesn't seem to get much airtime. But including it makes a nice story, with analogies that connect the atomic, nuclear, and subnuclear regimes. - Lastly: It presents experimental data, much of it through reproduced original graphs and data. So this is a book about reality. In any case, I see tons of care, care, care, and attention to the student. Back to the comparison with Perkins. I think Perkins is fine, and I've even updated to its 4th edition. But in comparison to what this book (Povh et al) proves can be accomplished, Perkins is more like a technical summary of current results rather than something I would recommend curling up with and enjoying learning everything from. So to new students: I hope you discover this book. To new course designers: I hope you help your students with great examples of teaching like this!
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Poorly written and translated! Look elsewhere.,
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This is a fairly poorly written and translated book. Perhaps the original work was well written, but something has definately been lost in translation.
The trouble with the book is that it cares too much about experimental details and not enough about seeing the larger theoretical picture. A typical mode of presentation in this book is to show a scattering graph, get excited about resonant peaks, pull obscure equations out of research papers and use it all to conclude that something exists. The book then moves on to the next member of the particle zoo. In principle this is not a problem since we are after all graduate students, but in practice it leads to far too much in the way of pointless trivia that only serves to conceal the bigger picture. A far better treatment would start out with the standard model and the fundamental forces and use the laws and properties described to deduce the various phenomenon seen in elementary particle physics (and then maybe provide experimental details) as opposed to using the phenomenon to construct the model and forces. Another major issue with the book is that the exercises go all over the place - using equations and graphs from other (not yet studied because they're further along) chapters. I would not recommend that anyone waste the $60 or so that this book costs unless they're already familiar with the theoretical content and just want an experimentalist overview of the subject.
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It arrived to me in Italy 20-15 days before the standard international shipping's time, in perfect conditions, as bought from the bookshop.
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