Particles and Nuclei

Prof. em. Dr. Bogdan Povh erhielt 1965 eine Professur in Physik an der Universität Heidelberg und wurde 1975 zum Direktor an das Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik in Heidelberg berufen. Er war jahrelang an der Ausbildung von Medizinern, Naturwissenschaftlern und Physikern beteiligt. Seine Forschungsgebiete sind Kern- und Teilchenphysik und die Anwendung der physikalischen Methoden in der Biologie, Geologie und Planetologie. 2005 bekam er die Stern-Gerlach-Medaille für Experimentalphysik verliehen.

Analysis: The Building Blocks of Matter.- Global Properties of Nuclei.- Nuclear Stability.- Scattering.- Geometric Shapes of Nuclei.- Elastic Scattering off Nucleons.- Deep Inelastic Scattering.- Quarks, Gluons, and the Strong Interaction.- Particle Production in e+e? Collisions.- Phenomenology of the Weak Interaction.- Exchange Bosons of the Weak Interaction.- The Standard Model.- Synthesis: Composite Systems.- Quarkonia.- Mesons Made from Light Quarks.- The Baryons.- The Nuclear Force.- The Structure of Nuclei.- Collective Nuclear Excitations.- Nuclear Thermodynamics.- Many-Body Systems in the Strong Interaction.- Hors d' uvre.- Hors d' uvre.

From the reviews

"...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
Aus den Rezensionen zur 6. Auflage: "... Die ... sechste Auflage ... vereint auf unterhaltsame Weise die profunde Sachlichkeit deutscher Lehrbücher mit angelsächsischer Freude an der Lehre. ... Bei aller Freude an der Leichtigkeit lässt sich der Studierende der Physik mit diesem Buch aber auch auf ein anspruchsvolles Projekt ein, denn sich komplexen Themen in einer fremden Sprache zu nähern, ist und bleibt eine Herausforderung - allerdings eine, die anzunehmen sich sowohl inhaltlich als auch sprachlich lohnt."