Riccardo D'Auria, Mario Trigiante

From Special Relativity to Feynman Diagrams (eBook, PDF)

A Course of Theoretical Particle Physics for Beginners

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Produktbeschreibung

This books aims at filling a gap between the basics courses of classical and quantum mechanics and advanced courses of (relativistic) quantum mechanics and field theory. Particular emphasis is given to the role of symmetry in modern theoretical physics. For this reason this book is particularly suited to those students who are interested in a deeper knowledge of modern developments in elementary particle physics and relativity, even if they choose not to specialize in this branch of research. This target of readers includes, besides experimental and applied physicists, also those engineers who need advanced notions of theoretical high energy physics, in view of future research activity in the field theory approach to condensed matter, in accelerator physics and in all those modern technology sectors which require a more advanced and sophisticated theoretical physics background. Courses motivated by these objectives are present in several polytechnic institutes around the world. The last chapters of this book, in particular, are of particular importance to those engineers who plan to work in high energy physics research centres, like LHC at CERN, or to collaborate to experiments on the revelation of gravitational waves. As far as engineering is concerned, it is important to stress that elementary Special and General Relativity courses are often absent in their curricula.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Milan
• Seitenzahl: 573
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788847015043
• Artikelnr.: 43990040

Autorenporträt

Riccardo D'Auria was Full Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Politecnico de Torino, Italy, from 1986 to 2010 and is now Emeritus Professor.  He was Director of the Department of Physics at the university from 1995 to 1999. Professor D'Auria worked for several periods at CERN, and conducted research at the Universities of Princeton, Stony Brook, and UCLA in USA. At the last-mentioned university he gave courses to PhD students in Theoretical Physics. His research has focused on field theory, gravity, and models for the unification of all fundamental interactions, including dual models, gravity, supersymmetry, string theory, and supergravity. Together with P. Fré and L. Castellani he developed a new geometrical and group theoretical approach to the construction of any supergravity theory, usually known as rheonomy. Professor D'Auria is the author of 177 publications in international journals. He is co-author with L. Castellani and P. Fré of the three-volume book Supergravity and Superstrings: a Geometric Perspective (World Scientific, Singapore, 1990). Mario Trigiante is Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Politecnico de Torino, Italy. He gained his degree in Physics with honors (110/110) at the University of Pisa and in 1997 received his PhD in "Theory of Elementary Particles" at SISSA (International School for Advanced Studies), Trieste. After periods as a post-doc at the University of Wales in Swansea (UK) and the Spinoza Institute, Utrecht (the Netherlands), he joined the Politecnico di Torino as Adjunct Professor and took up his current position in 2008. In January 2014 he received the national qualification for the role of Full Professor. As well as teaching courses on Classical Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Electromagnetism, and Group Theory and Its Applications, he has conducted extensive research. He is the author of almost 100 scientific publications. He is review editor for the online, open access journal Frontiers and is a referee for several leading journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Special Relativity.- Relativistic Dynamics.- The Equivalence Principle.- The Poincaré Group.- Maxwell Equations and Special Relativity.- Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field.- Group Representations and Lie Algebras.- Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Formalism.- Quantum Mechanics Formalism.- Relativistic Wave Equations.- Quantization of Boson and Fermion Fields.- Fields in Interaction.

Rezensionen

"This book originates from a course on advanced quantum mechanics given by the author at the Politechnico Turin for students of physical engineering to provide them with some insight into modern fundamental physics. ... This book not merely gives some insight into modern fundamental physics but also renders a good fundament for further studies of quantum field theory and elementary article physics in that correct suggestions are mediated." (K.-E. Hellwig, zbMATH 1371.81001, 2017)