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Particles, Fields and Forces = A Conceptual Guide to Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model /

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Title/Author:	Particles, Fields and Forces/ by Wouter Schmitz.
Reminder of title:	A Conceptual Guide to Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model /
Author:	Schmitz, Wouter.
Description:	XI, 349 p. 196 illus., 195 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Elementary particles (Physics). -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98753-4
ISBN:	9783030987534

Particles, Fields and Forces = A Conceptual Guide to Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model /
Schmitz, Wouter.

Particles, Fields and ForcesA Conceptual Guide to Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model /[electronic resource] :by Wouter Schmitz. - 2nd ed. 2022. - XI, 349 p. 196 illus., 195 illus. in color.online resource. - The Frontiers Collection,2197-6619. - The Frontiers Collection,.

Introduction -- Particles or waves? -- Fields -- What is a particle if it is a wave? -- A matter of energy exchange -- A wave of relativity -- Quantization of fields -- Energy in waves and fields -- Symmetry and the origin of force -- Propagators and virtual particles -- Renormalisation of fearful infinities -- Spin makes up bosons and fermions -- Conservation of charge and particle number -- Particle zoo -- Electroweak force in the early universe -- The breaking of the world will never be the same -- The strong force: Quantum Chromo Dynamics -- Gravity as a field -- Further reading -- References and sources.

This book provides unique and comprehensive conceptual explanations of quantum field theory and the standard model of particle physics. How can fundamental particles exist as waves in the vacuum? How can such waves have particle properties such as inertia? What is behind the notion of virtual particles? Why and how do particles exert forces on one another? Not least: What are forces anyway? These are some of the central questions that have intriguing answers in Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Unfortunately, these theories are highly mathematical, so that most people—even many scientists—are not able to fully grasp their meaning. This book untangles these theories in a conceptual non-mathematical way, using more than 190 figures and extensive explanations and will provide the nonspecialist with great insights that are not to be found in the popular science literature. This fully revised and expanded second edition adds remarkable insights into the transition from quantum to classical world using the concepts of quantum decoherence, while also explaining "collapse of the wave function", tunnelling and quantum computing.

ISBN: 9783030987534

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-98753-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Elementary particles (Physics).

LC Class. No.: QC793-793.5

Dewey Class. No.: 530.14

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