Subatomic Physics

By addebook • Jul 14th, 2008 • Category: Physics

Subatomic Physics

Subatomic Physics
By Ernest M. Henley, Alejandro Garcia

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Number Of Pages: 640
Publication Date: 2007-07-13
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 9812700560
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9789812700568
Binding: Hardcover

This is the third and fully updated edition of the classic textbook on physics at the subatomic level. An up-to-date and lucid introduction to both particle and nuclear physics, the book is suitable for both experimental and theoretical physics students at the senior undergraduate and beginning graduate levels. Topics are introduced with key experiments and their background, encouraging students to think and empowering them with the capability of doing back-of-the-envelope calculations in a diversity of situations. Earlier important experiments and concepts as well as topics of current interest are covered, with extensive use of photographs and figures to convey principal concepts and show experimental data. The coverage includes new material on: Detectors and accelerators Nucleon elastic form factor data Neutrinos, their masses and oscillations Chiral theories and effective field theories, and lattice QCD Relativistic heavy ions (RHIC) Nuclear structure far from the region of stability Particle astrophysics and cosmology

Summary: Subatomic physics 3rd edition is a completely new book
Rating: 5

Subatomic Physics by Henley and Garcia is a completely new book. The reviews of Subatomic Physics by Henley and Frauenfelder, second edition, are irrelevant. I have adopted Subatomic Physics by Henley and Garcia for my physics course at the University of Illinois this semester. I read several sections very carefully before making this decision, and I found them to be excellent. I will give an expanded review at the end of my semester.
Paul T. Debevec

Summary: A good intro into basic constituents of the world
Rating: 4

I just got my hands on the first edition of this book, came to Amazon to see if anything newer was available and got disappointed in the low rating of the book. My only goal in writing this brief review is to say that there are people out there who just like myself might like this book.
The book nicely blends particle and nuclear physics stressing phenomena rather than pure mathematics. Just as the editorial review states, the book gives many examples of “back of the envelope” calculations again stressing the idea and simplifying the details. The bibliography is truly impressive. The footnotes on every page contain references to the original papers and/or reviews where the idea being discussed was either presented for the first time or where one can find a rather clear exposition of it. As for the reason for such a book I think it would be nice to meet all the players of the subatomic world before “skipping straight to QFT” as another reviewer put it.
So why do I give this book only 4 stars? The main reason is that I have only seen the first edition and feel it would be misleading to rate the third edition so highly.

Summary: Comprehensive, but poor
Rating: 2

Frauenfelder and Henley covers the material you’d want for an undergraduate course in nuclear and particle physics, but it’s incredibly poorly done. It’s like a paper that was written but never revised. The sequential organization of the book is of little use, the explanations are frequently awkward and impenetrable, and the problems, though numerous, are ambiguous and frustrating. I found myself reading Povh et al., Particles and Nuclei, and other sources so that I could understand the material, and Frauenfelder and Henley so I knew what to do to crank out the assigned problems therein.

Summary: ehh…
Rating: 2

My problem with this book is essentially that I don’t really see much reason for such a book. Perhaps it was just the class I took using this book (a total waste of time — we spent more time looking at whether nuclear reactions were allowed based on charge conservation than anything else), but it seems to me that if you’re going to study subatomic physics, you might as well skip straight to quantum field theory and actually get a feel for what is going on as opposed to studying the surface of the subject without ever getting into (what seems to me to be) the meat of it.

Summary: Good introductory text to subject
Rating: 4

I used this book in an undergraduate nuclear physics course. We studied under a working theoretical physicist who uses quantum field theory pretty much everyday, I suppose. I thought the book was pretty good, and had good physical insights. The math derivations always seemed to be pretty transparent so as not to obscure the physics behind it. The problems seemed a little terse, so the instructor expanded some and added some of his own on the assignments. The book assumes a level of competency in quantum mechanics which may not be there for all readers. Also, I thought that the authors didn’t highlight the most important points sufficiently. Nevertheless, I think the book is very good, and is a nice introduction to the subject.

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