Particles, Fields, Space-Time - From Thomsons Electron to Higgs Boson

For this second edition, the complete text has been thoroughly revised. A description of plans for new accelerator facilities has been added, as well as new results on cosmic ray physics, dark matter and dark energy. The usage of natural units has been abandoned in favour of SI units throughout the text.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: The First Particles. Chapter 3: Relativity. Chapter 4: Atoms and Nuclei. Chapter 5: Quanta. Chapter 6: War Time Physics. Chapter 7: Quantum Fields. Chapter 8: Enabling Technologies. Chapter 9: The Standard Model of Matter and Forces. Chapter 10: Pushing the Boundaries. Bibliography. Index.

About the author

Martin Pohl is a professor emeritus at University of Geneva. He started working on particle physics with the Gargamelle neutrino experiment at CERN in the 1970s. Later, he experimented at the colliders PETRA (DESY, Hamburg Germany), LEP and LHC (CERN, Geneva Switzerland), before turning to astroparticle physics in space. He has been the director of the department for nuclear and particle physics (DPNC) at University of Geneva and head of the physics department. Until his retirement in 2017, he led the Geneva team working on the cosmic ray observatory AMS installed on the International Space Station since 2011. He is the author of a textbook on particle physics, as well as the main author of two introductory online courses on the same subject.

Product details

• Authors: Martin (Cern Pohl, Pohl Martin
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 16.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032859583
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3285958-3
• No. of pages: 306
• Series: Discovering Physics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Mechanics, acoustics; SCIENCE / Physics / General, SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, Astrophysics, SCIENCE / Physics / Atomic & Molecular, SCIENCE / Applied Sciences, SCIENCE / Physics / Mathematical & Computational, SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics, Particle & high-energy physics, Atomic & molecular physics, Particle and high-energy physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Electronic devices and materials, Semi-conductors & super-conductors, LHC;CERN;particle physics;higgs particle;SUSY;standard model