Particles and Nuclei : An Introduction to the Physical Concepts

1 Hors d'Å“uvre.- I Analysis: The Building Blocks of Matter.- 2 Global Properties of Nuclei.- 3 Nuclear Stability.- 4 Scattering.- 5 Geometric Shapes of Nuclei.- 6 Elastic Scattering off Nucleons.- 7 Deep Inelastic Scattering.- 8 Quarks, Gluons, and the Strong Interaction.- 9 Particle Production in e+e?

Collisions.- 10 Phenomenology of the Weak Interaction.- 11 Exchange Bosons of the Weak Interaction.- 12 The Standard Model.- II Synthesis: Composite Systems.- 13 Quarkonia.- 14 Mesons Made from Light Quarks.- 15 The Baryons.- 16 The Nuclear Force.- 17 The Structure of Nuclei.- 18 Collective Nuclear Excitations.- 19 Nuclear Thermodynamics.- 20 Many-Body Systems in the Strong Interaction.- A Appendix.- A.1 Accelerators.- A.2 Detectors.- A.3 Combining Angular Momenta.- A.4 Physical Constants.- Solutions to the Problems.