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Now available on WorldSciNet Particle Physics & Quantum Field Theory New & Notable Books in 2021-2022 Textbook Textbook Lectures on Quantum Field Theory Lectures on Accelerator (2nd Edition) Physics by Ashok Das (University of Rochester, USA) by Alexander Wu Chao (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA) Reviews of the First Edition: “This book is a comprehensive introduction to Accelerators have been driving research modern quantum field theory. The topics under and industrial advances for decades. This consideration would be of great interest for textbook illustrates the physical principles every physicist and mathematician who are behind these incredible machines, often with interested in methods of the quantum physics.” intuitive pictures and simple mathematical Zentralblatt MATH models. Pure formalisms are avoided as This book comprises the lectures of a two- much as possible. The style is informal and semester course on quantum field theory, accessible to graduate-level students without presented in an informal and personal prior knowledge in accelerators. manner. The course starts with relativistic one-particle systems, and develops the basics 700pp Oct 2020 of quantum field theory with an analysis on 978-981-122-796-7(pbk) US$88 £75 the representations of the Poincaré group. The second edition includes two 978-981-122-673-1 US$188 £165 new chapters, one on Nielsen identities and the other on basics of global supersymmetry. Beam Acceleration in Crystals 940pp Jul 2020 and Nanostructures 978-981-122-216-0(pbk) US98 £85 Proceedings of the Workshop 978-981-122-086-9 US$198 £175 edited by Swapan Chattopadhyay (Northern Illinois University, USA), Geoffrey Chew Memorial Volume Gérard Mourou (École Polytechnique, edited by Lars Brink (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), France), Vladimir D Shiltsev (Fermi National Richard C Brower (Boston University, USA), Carleton DeTar (University Accelerator Laboratory, USA) & Toshiki Tajima of Utah, USA), Chung-I Tan (Brown University, USA) & K K Phua (University of California, Irvine, USA) (Founding Director Emeritus IAS NTU, Singapore) Recent advancements in generation of intense Geoffrey Chew’s work has influenced X-ray laser ultrashort pulses open opportunities generations of particle physicists. From the for particle acceleration in solid-state plasmas. Chew-Low theory for meson-nucleon scattering to Analytic S-Matrix and Bootstrap principle, his Wakefield acceleration in crystals or carbon originality left its mark on theoretical physics nanotubes shows promise of unmatched ultra- in ways that continue to the present. With high accelerating gradients and possibility to shape the future of high energy contributions from Chew’s former collaborators, physics colliders. students, and friends, the book will cover various facets of his life and his impact on This book summarizes the discussions of the “Workshop on Beam physics. Acceleration in Crystals and Nanostructures” held at Fermilab on June 24-25, 2019. It reviews the progress in wakefield acceleration over Contributors include Steven Weinberg, the past two decades, and discusses key issues toward proof-of-principle Gabriele Veneziano, Steven Frautschi, demonstrations and next steps in theory, modeling and experiment. Basarab Nicolescu, Ling-Lie Chau, Jan Dash, Jerrold Franklin, William Frazer, Carl 268pp Feb 2020 Rosenzweig, John Schwartz, R Shanka, 978-981-121-712-8 US$108 £95 Dennis Sivers, and others. 300pp Aug 2021 978-981-121-982-5 US$85 £75 Subscribe or Recommend these journals to your Librarian! https://www.worldscientific.com/ijmpa Prefer Digital? https://www.worldscientific.com/mpla *Please log in to your existing account View this flyer online at Details on or register for a FREE account to enjoy https://tinyurl.com/hepnew21 pages 7 FREE access to the selected articles. Particle Physics & Quantum Field Theory: New and Notable Books in 2021-2022 Textbook Artificial Intelligence for Introduction to High Energy High Energy Physics edited by: Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley Physics National Laboratory, USA), David Rousseau Particle Physics for the Beginner (Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène by Lee G Pondrom (University of Wisconsin – Joliot-Curie, France) & Kazuhiro Terao (SLAC Madison, USA) National Accelerator Laboratory, USA) The goal of the book is to enable undergraduates The Higgs boson discovery in 2012 relied on or fresh graduate students to understand and boosted decision trees. Since then, high energy enjoy the fascinating subject of elementary particle physics (HEP) has applied modern machine physics. Each topic has been selected for its learning (ML) techniques to all stages of the accessibility to as wide an audience as possible, without any compromise data analysis pipeline, from raw data processing to statistical analysis. The unique requirements of HEP data analysis, the complexity of the data in mathematical sophistication. The text covers the derivations of many structures (which rarely are image-like), the control of uncertainties expected essential formula and details the various steps and clever tricks, and how to from scientific measurements, and the exabyte-scale datasets require the avoid pitfalls. A wealth of end-of-chapter exercises are provided to increase development of HEP-specific ML techniques. The 19 reviews in this book the reader’s skills in the material. offer a self-contained, pedagogical introduction to ML models’ applications 450pp Oct 2021 in HEP, written by some of the foremost experts in their area. 978-981-122-209-2 US$118 £105 720pp Nov 2021 978-981-122-301-3(pbk) US$88 £60 978-981-123-402-6 US$188 £165 The HERMES Experiment Physics of Weak Neutral Currents A Personal Story by Krishna Kumar (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) & by Richard Milner (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) & William Marciano (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) Erhard Steffens (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) This book is the first to tackle the history, key experimental results, and This book describes the story of how the HERMES experiment was future directions of weak neutral current interactions. The topic is treated in developed and operated at the DESY laboratory to study the spin structure of a manner accessible to junior researchers in particle and nuclear physics. the fundamental structure of matter. The authors played a leading role within Particular emphasis is given to theoretical and experimental foundations of the HERMES collaboration. They describe, using an accessible language, precision tests of the Standard Model and the unified electromagnetic and the technical design of HERMES; the effort to secure the necessary funds weak interactions. in different countries; the fabrication of the components by the different 300pp Dec 2021 HERMES institutes; and the story of the installation and commissioning 978-981-122-242-9 US$98 £85 of HERMES in the East Hall of the HERA particle accelerator in the hot summer of 1995 until 2007. They also cover the HERMES scientific results, their considerable impact, and how HERMES shaped an entire generation The Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment of young people into scientific leaders. The Science and the Story by Jim Pivarski (Princeton University, USA & Fermilab, USA) Readership: Nuclear and particle physicists, general public interested in how large-scale experimental scientific research is carried out. This book presents both the history and scientific background leading to the construction of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), one of the four 244pp Mar 2021 giant detectors of LHC. Based on the author’s first-hand experience in the 978-981-121-533-9 US$48 £40 commisioning of LHC, the story is an unlikely one - without some unexpected developments, we might not have proceeded in the right way to complete The Adventure of the Large such a large scientific apparatus. The historical treatment starts with the discovery of radiation in 1895 and ends with the end of ‘naturalness’, the Hadron Collider LHC’s most troubling revelation. From the Big Bang to the Higgs Boson by Daniel Denegri (Paris-Saclay University, 200pp Nov 2021 France), Claude Guyot (Paris-Saclay University, 978-981-120-648-1 US$58 £50 France), Andreas Hoecker (CERN, Switzerland) & Lydia Roos (Sorbonne University, France) Textbook “This book presents what is beyond doubt the largest purely scientific project ever, the LHC — the New Era for CP Asymmetries Large Hadron Collider at CERN — and associated Axions and Rare Decays of Hadrons and Leptons experiments ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and ALICE, culminating with the discovery by Ikaros I Bigi (University of Notre Dame, USA), of the Higgs boson in summer 2012. [...] Such discoveries, as those of the Giulia Ricciardi (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy) & Marco Pallavicini (University of Genoa, Italy) W, Z and now Higgs, are real landmarks in the history of sciences.” From the Foreword by Carlo Rubbia, Key Features: Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1984 ○ Shows the impact of new physics (NP) beyond the Standard Model (like su- Readership: Physics students as well as science enthusiasts. persymmetry). It differs from compet- ing titles since it models NP mostly indirectly, namely without 600pp Aug 2021 new particles 978-981-3236-08-0 US$98 £86 ○ Non-standard presentation aiming at full understanding beyond mere formulas Textbook: Request Inspection ○ Modern topics, often untouched in similar books, presented in a comprehensive manner. Copy at [email protected] or scan the QR code 250pp May 2021 978-981-3233-07-2
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