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Based on a series of lectures given to undergraduate and graduate students over several years, this book provides a comprehensive and clear presentation of the physics principles that underlie radiati...
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This volume presents a set of useful mathematical methods and tools that can be used by physicists and engineers for a wide range of applications.
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Robert Bingham reviews in 2016 Unifying Physics of Accelerators, Lasers and Plasmas.
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Frithjof Karsch reviews in 2016 Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks: From Hagedorn Temperature to Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions at CERN. With a Tribute to Rolf Hagedorn.
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After a short, but intense, “intermezzo” as editor of the CERN Courier, I’m stepping down as I head off to new challenges. I would like to thank the CERN Courier Advisory Board and the m...
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As an organisation with more than 60 years of history, CERN has created large volumes of “data” of many different types. This involves not only scientific data – by far the large...
Read article 'The Composite Nambu–Goldstone Higgs'
This book provides a description of a composite Higgs scenario as possible extension of the Standard Model (SM).
Read article 'Chern–Simons (Super) Gravity – 100 Years of General Relativity (vol. 2)'
Written on the basis of a set of lecture notes, this book provides a concise introduction to Chern–Simons (super) gravity theories accessible to graduate students and researchers in physics and math...
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The book comes as a follow-up to a previous title, The Martians of Science, which drew the profiles of these five scientists and presented their contributions to their fields of research. The aim of t...
Read article 'Excitons and Cooper Pairs: Two Composite Bosons in Many-Body Physics'
This book deals with two major but different fields of condensed-matter physics, semiconductors and superconductors, starting from the consideration that the key particles of these materials, which ar...
